Good day everyone!  I found an interesting article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the topic is a community drug test.  Did any of us ever think that a community water sample could indicate drug use?  That is exactly what researchers are doing by studying community sewage.

The article says that researchers conducted a one-day sampling at 96 sewage treatment plants and 40% of ecstasy, 80%

Good morning and thank you for taking time to read my Christian Addiction Help Pasco County blog.  Yesterday, the AP released a story on the most recent available federal data and below are some of the statistics:

 1)  Heroin, cocaine, and marijuana is responsible for more than 1 million admissions annually to medical facilities for treatment.

2)  Illegal drug users that have used within the past

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has put together a list of principles that should be included in drug prevention programs. The list is the result of long-term studies of drug abuse behaviors and other factors.

"These principles were developed to help prevention practitioners use the results of prevention research to address drug use among children and adolescents in communities across the

A report in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine reports that abuse of dextromethorphan, a drug commonly found in cold medicine, increased 10-fold from 1999 to 2004.

"Since the late 1990's, dextromethorphan abuse has increased among adolescents, in part because the drug is easily accessible and is perceived to be safe."

Severe side effects are reported with high

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) promotes a "Family Day" every year. The purpose of Family Day is to encourage families to eat dinner together.

"Research by [CASA] consistently finds that the more often children eat dinner together with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink, or use drugs."

Family Day was first created in 2001 and

Parents of toddlers lock up medicines so their children do not have access to dangerous drugs. Now experts are advising parents of teens to do the same thing.

A new study from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse found that teens say it is easier to obtain prescription drugs than cigarettes, beer, or marijuana. One-third of the teens in the study who abuse such drugs obtain them

Danny was in eighth grade when he first got hooked on drugs. He started with the Ritalin that had been prescribed him for ADHD by crushing and snorting it. Then he started stealing other medications from his mother.

"By the time Danny was a sophomore in high school, he was using cocaine and crystal meth. One morning when he was 19, he woke up vomiting and hung over as usual. 'I just broke,' he

Good morning and thank you for taking time to read another entry of my Christian Addiction Help Pasco County blog.  Today's topic is a news story that says once a fading away 1990s designer drug is making a comeback.  There were two arrests within this week in the Twin Cities with the sales of ecstasy to undercover agents.  Ecstasy, or MDMA, has been used by 1% of people at MSU within the

A 12-year-old girl in New York died of a methadone overdose after taking pills she got from a 15-year-old friend. The friend took the pills from his dad's drawer and he, the girl, and another friend all took some together.

"[Investigator Charles] Lopez said the boy told him he and a male friend each took two pills, and [the girl] downed about four. The boy told Lopez he soon felt sick and went

Pregnant rats that ingest alcohol give birth to offspring that are attracted to that substance, according to a new study from the State University of New York.

Scientists have already shown that for humans, the best predictor of teen and adult alcoholism is having a mother who drank during pregnancy.

The theory of the new study is that mammals can 'learn' that alcohol is something good even in