This is a wonderful article that appeared in today’s New York Times. It’s a little long, but wonderful. Jerry
WASHINGTON — His son had been dead from an overdose only three months when A. Thomas McLellan, among the nation’s leading researchers on addiction, got a call from the office of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Would [...]
New City, NY (CBS) On Wednesday, more than two dozen young people were charged with peddling various prescription pills. They range in age from 16 to 34, and many come from affluent families. Most have no prior criminal records.
It is a real education for a community that prides itself on teaching young people about the [...]
What’s done is done. It cannot be undone. One of the first things you need to come to terms with when you enter recovery is that the past cannot be remade. The voices (The Committee-you remember The Committee) would like to pull you down with recriminations, useless remorse (addicts are always remorseful), self-pity, and fantasized [...]
Opiate dependence is about a lot more then just using opiates: It has to do with what it is you feel inside that allows opiates to have a SPECIAL EFFECT on you (what I call the POW! Effect”). An effect so powerful, that you almost certainly remember it, from the first time you feel it. [...]
Up until recently, when a teenager decided to try an illicit substance of some kind, the first was probably marijuana or alcohol. Maybe they had already taken a step that their parents forbade them to do–they smoked a couple of cigarettes.
But today, the top gateway drug is none of these. Instead, it’s the variety of [...]
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Jerry Bayer has a master’s degree in Public Policy from California State University, Sonoma, including a year as a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He started working in the addiction treatment field in 1970 in the Bronx, New York, and has worked at treatment centers across the country designing, developing and evaluating a wide variety of treatment services and programs... - Read More
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