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  • Top 20 Most Expensive Cities for a Night Out Drinking

     December 15, 2022     7 min Read

    It’s no secret that inflation is racking up the drinking bill, prompting Americans all across the country to find unique ways around rising alcohol costs. Whether you’re looking to cut…
  • Fentanyl Makes Experimenting With Drugs Deadlier than Ever

     October 27, 2022     4 min Read

    As overdose rates skyrocket across the country, everyone is becoming more familiar with the substance fentanyl, a deadly opiate that is responsible for a large percentage of these overdose deaths.…
  • The Real March Madness

     March 21, 2022     5 min Read

    March Madness is a time of year that many sports fans enjoy. The term refers to the month when the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's and women's college basketball…
  • Killer Computation

     October 11, 2021     8 min Read

    The Drug Epidemic During the Pandemic America’s drug epidemic has taken its toll on us. As a country, we’ve suffered the loss of so many lives and endured a wave…
  • Selecting the Wrong Target

     April 12, 2021     15 min Read

    In the difficult times of today’s COVID-19 pandemic, substance abuse is at an all-time high. Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths have occurred in the United States in the 12-month period…
  • The Problems Related to Suicide and Addiction Among Teens Overshadow COVID

     March 24, 2021     2 min Read

    The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promoted the general reopening of schools, highlighting the low coronavirus risk for children without a preexisting condition. However, if children…
  • Mass Incarceration and the Revolving Door of the Drug Addicted Prison Population

     January 4, 2021     4 min Read

    The United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation at a rate of 698 per 100,000 residents. Nationwide there are over 2.3 million people incarcerated within…
  • The Pandemic Increases Prescription Drug Use, but Can Lead to More Substance Abuse

     December 28, 2020     4 min Read

    During the pandemic, more people are taking drugs for anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Coronavirus health concerns, job loss, social isolation, returning to work, or looking for a job, force many…
  • The Problem With Drug Overdose Is Not Going Away

     December 9, 2020     4 min Read

    The pandemic, government overreach, job loss, stress, and everything else has exacerbated the opioid epidemic, substance abuse, and mental health problems across the nation. Drug-related overdose, whether fatal or not,…
  • The Cascading Effect that Has Led to Increased Drug-Related Overdoses

     October 20, 2020     3 min Read

    Social Isolation, unemployment, and disruption in normal supply lines of illegal drugs have forced addicts to seek new dealers and try unfamiliar substances. The closure along the Mexico/U.S. border has…
  • American Made Drug Addiction

     June 8, 2020     6 min Read

    Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1999 to 2021, almost 645,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, which includes legal and illegal pain medication. In…
  • COVID-19 Risk Increased by Drug Use and Smoking

     June 3, 2020     4 min Read

    At this point, virtually everyone is aware of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's dominating all media and most conversations. It's so new that we only have speculation and information from other…
  • Stigma Worse Now Than Ever Amid COVID-19

     May 27, 2020     5 min Read

    The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us several things so far. For example, our medical and rehabilitation systems were unprepared for a crisis like this. For a while, hospitals were out…
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Could Lead to Drastic Increase in Deaths from Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Suicide

     May 18, 2020     3 min Read

    New research released by Well Being Trust and the Robert Center for Policy Studies and Family Medicine and Primary Care predicts 75,000 additional deaths caused by alcohol and drug misuse…
  • The Harm Reduction Anomaly

     May 11, 2020     4 min Read

    Things are changing As the implementation of harm reduction becomes more popular, there appears to be a working solution to mitigate the fallout of substance abuse in America. The problem…
  • Alcohol Sales Surge in U.S. Amid COVID-19

     May 6, 2020     4 min Read

    During the start of the economic lockdown and self-isolation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. alcohol sales increased 55 percent in one week. During the third week of March this year…
  • Transitioning our United Front: How the United States can Make an Impact on Drug Addiction

     May 1, 2020     5 min Read

    Tragedy and Transition When we examine COVID-19, it is easy to look at the tragedy that has befallen our country. We lost many lives, more than 60,000 at his point,…