In the beginning after my sons death I had an interview with Sarah Grace and 21 news. This was put in my lap when RAH asked me to be...

When the substance abuse act was signed into law almost 40 years ago. Opiates were put into the same category as all other abused...

When opiate addiction hit the suburbs and small mid western towns, it rolled through like a freight train, hitting the addict and...

What I’d like to do now is explain this epidemic, what you think is happening and what is actually going on. As i said in prior posts you...

Becoming addicted, experts label it a brain disorder. Addicts say its a disease. Either one doesn’t matter to me, I am just going to...

The entire detoxification process for opiate addiction is about 12-18 months and it happens in three separate stages. The bloodstream,...

Now that I’ve explained the withdrawal process, it’s separate stages and the time lines of each stage, I’m now going to take you through...

There use to be a saying in recovery: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different...

Methadone and Suboxone, over the last 30 years these are the two things we have come up with to treat heroin addiction. Ones bad the...

PART 1. Now i’m going to take you through a typical 30-60 day rehab trip this time from the rehab stand point, there are a lot of rehabs...

PART 2…The reason why I picked Jon smiths age to be 19 for this post is because at 18 all of his treatment ( prescriptions, therapy,...

GATEWAYS, FIRST LOVE, TRIGGERS…what i would like to do is put some of these into perspective and maybe update somethings. Lets start with...

THE FUTURE…Hmm, lets start with the immediate future. we are about to repeat history with this epidemic, its already starting and its...

I think before i get into what a possible solution may be id like to address where we are at this point, why, and who may be at fault and...