Well, who knew? You may have missed it again. Didn’t you know that June 26 was International Day Against Drug Abuse? To be honest, most people missed it, including the people who use opiates and heroin and those who work in opiate drug rehabilitation treatment. Way back in December 1987, the United Nations General Assembly declared its intention to “combat the drug menace and…[tackle] the serious ...
Change at Your California Methadone Treatment Program
Public attitudes toward use of both alcohol and drugs have always posed moral conflicts. According to SAMHSA, Americans go through periods when they are torn by the two opposing viewpoints that addicts should be ostracized from society and thrown in jail or they should be pitied and treated. The typical California methadone treatment program has long borne a stigma, a suspicion that anyone who ...
Drug Treatment Centers in Texas Know: Speedballs Kill
If you look up the word speedballing in the Urban Dictionary, it reads in part, “The combination of the narcotic heroin and stimulant cocaine mixed together and injected in a single shot…Highly addictive. Beyond destructive. Will bring any addict to their knees…” This is nothing new to the people at drug treatment centers in Texas. Speed kills, and heroin kills, and speedballing is probably the ...
Update: Ross William Ulbricht Arrested
Heroin users following the case of Ross William Ulbricht are not alone in discovering that this true story is much stranger than fiction. In fact, you can’t make up a tale like Ulbricht’s, who was arrested for selling heroin in Oakland in October 2013. Hiding behind the Internet on a secret website called Silk Road, Ulbricht masterminded drug sales wherever he could poke his modem, including ...
