Drugs & Your Family
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Counterfeit Pills: What You Need to Know As our nation remains in the midst of an opioid crisis, another disturbing trend has emerged: the use of counterfeit medication.
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What’s PTSD? How is it Connected to Substance Misuse? Post-traumatic stress disorder – also known as PTSD – can develop after a person sees or experiences a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.
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Online Mental Health Resources As the conversation about mental health has gotten louder in recent years, the number of resources online dedicated to awareness and treatment have also increased.
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Culture-Based Prevention ResourcesOperation Prevention, DEA and Discovery Education's joint educational initiative, recently launched a set of culture-based prevention materials for elementary and middle school students.
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What is 420? April 20, also known as “420,” is a day popular with many marijuana smokers. They see this date as an unofficial holiday and celebrate by getting high.
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Are Your Teens Ready for Some Socially Distant Fun?Temperatures are finally creeping up and after months of being cooped up in the house, you probably can’t wait to go outside and hang out with your friends.
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How to Encourage Your Child to Get Help for Their Substance Use or Addiction(Partnership to End Addiction) While the hope is that your child will readily and quickly agree to treatment, don’t despair if they first say no or need more time to think about it. There will be opportunities to raise the subject again. Managing your expectations around them engaging with, and staying in, treatment are a part of good self-care.
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Substance Misuse and Eating Disorders Just like with substance misuse, eating disorders can be linked to unhealthy compulsory behavior, which can have devastating effects on a person’s physical and mental well-being.
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What Are the Signs of Having a Problem With Drugs?(NIDA Blog Team, January 4) Addiction can happen at any age, but it usually starts when a person is young. It’s the result of changes in the brain that can come from drug use. Addiction affects how people think and what they do. But what exactly are the signs?
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If You Discover Your Child is Using Drugs: Start Talking
(Partnership to End Addiction) Discovering that your child could be using substances stirs up a lot of emotion. The best way to find out what’s going on, and to begin helping, is to start talking.
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