The Harshest Reality of “Crack Kills”

For a long time, I used to think that people don't die from crack addiction.  I used to think that only drugs like heroin and prescription meds could kill addicts.  You don't hear about crack overdoses like heroin, but just recently a member of our recovery community at treatment-centers.net told us that her husband, who had been a crack ...

Heroin Addiction Running Wild

There have been numerous articles recently about the spread of heroin and perscription drug abuse among young people from 13-25 years of age.  These disturbing develpments have indicated that a majority of these young people are beginning with abuse of prescription pan medications stolen from parents and grandparents who are ill or recovering from surgery.  Despite the serious dangers of ...

Opiate Addiction Trumps Meth Addiction

Drug abuse and drug addiction have been plaguing our society for decades and the most disturbing trend was the rapid and deadly spread methamphetamine from the mid-west throughout the country. But more recently, even the heavily methamphetamine saturated states throughout the west and mid-west have been struggling with an addiction monster no one saw coming. Prescription opiate pain ...