What Your Kid’s Teacher Is Scared To Tell You About Smartphones
Although smartphones have largely mollified students’ destructive energy, they have also smothered their creative energy and shaved off their humanity.
The Headlines About Demi Lovato’s Drug Addiction Are Nothing Like My Normal Family’s Reality
When telling the stories that lead to real and comprehensive change in the fight against addiction, the culture and the media need to do better.
This Is How It Feels To Have An Alcoholic Relapse
Alcoholics came home and beat up their wives and kids in a blind rage, they went on week-long benders, and that wasn’t me.
National Campaigns Aren’t Going To Cut It. To Beat Opioids, Everyone Needs To Step Up
These kinds of prevention campaigns are important for targeting potential addicts, but don’t do as much for the people already languishing in the midst of their problems.
New Analysis Finds Blue States Have Worse Opioid Problems Than Do Red States
WalletHub just released a report on the states with the biggest drug problems in 2018 to highlight the states that are winning and losing the war on drugs.
Want To Help Veterans Struggling With Addiction Or PTSD? Introduce Them To Warriors Heart
‘How do you explain to your 10-year-old son that daddy is sick, and that he’s sick right here?’ a veteran asked as he pointed to his heart.
‘Selfie Surgeries’ Spike As People Seek To Morph Into Filtered Versions Of Themselves
Forty percent of plastic surgeons say looking better in selfies for Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat was an incentive for their patients to seek surgery.
Why America Will Not Solve Its Existential Crisis Without A Rebirth Of Faith
A genuine cure must include cultural revival in which religious communities come alongside individuals and families to reweave the frayed ends of broken relationships.
Addressing America’s Opiate Crisis Should Involve Making People Responsible For Their Behavior
How long and to what degree must Americans backstop people suffering the entirely predictable result of their own self-destructive behavior?
Google Firing Over Diversity Memo Shows How Outrage Addiction Is Making Us Stupid
To feed their addiction, outrage addicts have embraced the following idiotic syllogism: ‘I am mad at people who say X. I am mad at you. Therefore you said X.’
Buying Druggies Needles Will Not Reduce Their Opioid Habit
After Vancouver implemented North America’s biggest needle-sharing program, its HIV and hepatitis rates exploded. So why are states following suit?
The Surprising Link Between Broken Families And America’s Opioid Crisis
Harm-reduction and law enforcement are a losing battle because our society’s saturation with opioids inadvertently unmasked a dormant, lingering pain: the breakup of American families.
It’s Time To Admit That Screens Are Just Digital Pacifiers
We need to be honest about kids and their devices. They are addicted, and parents are to blame.
Cracking Down On E-Cigs Hurts Real People To Make Others Feel Good
Some U.S. cities are cracking down on e-cigarettes. That’s not going to help ex-smokers like me, who’ve benefited hugely from the smoking alternative.
Sessions Has Neither The Authority Nor The Evidence To Pursue A New Drug War
In seeking to regulate human behavior at such a personal level as dictating what we may ingest, there is almost no alternative to Big Government.
Sentencing Reform Would Give Many Americans Second Chances They Desperately Need
America needs criminal justice reform, particularly to reduce the obstacles facing those reentering society. People who have served their time deserve a second chance in life.
If It’s Hard To Imagine A Day Without Your Phone, That’s A Good Reason To Try It
How many Americans could spend a whole day without phone, iPad, computer, or television? What new habits or hobbies could we form sans technology?
How Legalizing Marijuana Will Hurt Americans Long-Term
While marijuana’s surface-level effects appear more benign than its detractors suggest, its unintended consequences run deeper than its advocates like to admit.
See If You Can Spot What’s Problematic In This Girl’s Instagram Posts
A viral Instagram hoax is once again making the rounds on social media in an obnoxious attempt to raise awareness of alcoholism. But what it really does it trivialize the problem.
Why Would Regulators Ban An Herbal Treatment For Recovering Opioid Addicts?
May the plant’s close brush with regulatory disaster be a lesson to citizens: the government doesn’t always hold our best interests as a top priority.
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