Underage alcohol use is a sweeping problem with serious health and safety repercussions for the Nation. A substantial number of young people begin drinking before the age of 13, which frequently results in alcohol abuse or dependence. The highest prevalence of alcohol dependence is among people ages 18-20. The conclusion being that the impetus is on parents and people in the community to educate

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 The prospect of seeking treatment for your addiction can be daunting. You can never know what to expect. However, many people get help for their addictions everyday and the following is a success story from one such person that I hope will inspire others to make a change in their life and get the help they need:

"I feel like a new person today, then when I first arrived. My thinking has changed

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Alcohol is ranked much more harmful than the Class A drug Ecstasy in a new classification system proposed by a team of leading scientists.  The team identified three main factors that together determine the harm associated with any drug  of potential  abuse: the physical harm to the individual user caused by the drug; the tendency of the drug to induce dependence and addiction; and the effect of

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That's the double curse for some people who drink. They get drunk, they are in danger of accidents, alcohol poisoning, and risk from unprotected sex, assaults, and such, but as an added bonus, they can also get addicted. Alcohol is in a way a crueler addiction than heroin. First, it hides behind the legality of alcohol. You don't get arrested for being drunk unless you create a problem or you

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CANADIAN, OK?"I became a statistic at the age of 20 when I started using heroin," explains Erica, a beautiful young lady that recently completed the Narconon Arrowhead drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. 

"There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin."  By looking at her one would never guess that she was a former drug addict. 

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One need not look far to find a major source of trouble in America; drugs.  There are approximately 22 million people in this country addicted to substances such as cocaine, heroin, alcohol and methamphetamine, which is the cause of innumerable other social problems.  However, there is another group of drugs and their manufacturers that is causing an entirely new set of problems.

The 2003

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National Center for Health Statistics shows nearly half of the adult population has used prescription drugs in the last month

Recent information from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that nearly half of U.S. adults have taken prescription drugs within the past 30 days.  The segment of the population showing the most prescription drug use was white non-Hispanic women (54 percent)

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National survey shows little change in overall adolescent drug use and slight increase in prescription sedatives and painkillers.

The results from the 2005 Monitoring the Future survey were released last week by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the University of Michigan.  Overall statistics show a very slight decline in illicit drug use among teens, but the use of prescription

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The controversy over the millions of our nation's children being put on drugs for subjectively diagnosed "learning disorders" widens with new facts about the abuse of prescription stimulants. 

A recent CESAR Fax from the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland says that through the latest national survey on drug abuse approximately three to five percent of high school

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More than 31 million Americans have used prescription drugs non-medically

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is working with state legislatures to cut down the rising numbers of prescription drug abusers.  National surveys show that the non-medical use of prescription drugs continues to rise in America.

The number of people who had used pain relievers non-medically at least

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