by Laura Booz It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. After the trauma of preterm labor, a month of bed-rest, and a three-day long delivery, I was a new mom who had to constantly hold, nurse, or pump milk for our premature daughter. The around-the-clock care didn’t ease…
Watch this video when you get a chance. I think you’ll like it. Author’s Description: Habilitat Hawaii Long-Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment & Vocational Training Program Has been helping people since We are recognized as one of the nation’s foremost long term drug rehabilitation Habilitat is a self-supporting non-profit…
Do your parents or teachers start the day with a cup of coffee? There’s no question that coffee is a popular drink—the National Coffee Association estimates that Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day. It’s the caffeine in coffee that provides the energy boost that many people…
It’s time for another question/answer. I know a lot of you like these so here we go. This one comes from who asks us: 2. How often did you use?3. How did you view yourself at the time?4. How do you view yourself now?5. What daily activities in your…
An interview with the man who blew the whistle on the neurotoxic malaria drug in the U.S. Army’s kit bag. A dangerous malaria drug invented by the Army and commonly used by soldiers and civilians alike causes everything from episodes of psychotic violence to nightmares more real than reality,…
Tomorrow is Safer Internet Day. Safer Internet Day (SID) began in Europe but is now celebrated in more than 70 countries worldwide. This year, the theme for SID is “Discover the digital world together… safely! ” The aim is to connect generations around this theme: from the very young,…
A compendium of tough prose and poetry about addiction. Here’s a book I’m delighted to promote unabashedly. I even wrote a jacket blurb for it. I called it an “honest, unflinching book about addiction from a tough group of talented writers. These hard-hitters know whereof they speak, and the…
I remember when my wife was 8 weeks pregnant and she was reading in a few online discussion forums for pregnant women. She came across a number of threads of conversation about pornography. Several women said their husbands had really ramped up their use of porn during the pregnancy….
For anyone who resolves to stop smoking, help is as close as your cell phone. According to NIDA’s 2011 Monitoring the Future survey results, teen smoking rates are currently at their lowest since the survey began in 1975. However, many teens continue to take up the habit—19 percent of…
After much work on the part of the Pink Cross Foundation , the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) , and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the nation’s largest hub of commercial pornography may be shutting down . Right now the San Fernando Valley (called “San Pornando Valley”…