Drug Abuse: When Parents Share Their Drug Abuse Stories, Kids Follow in Their Footsteps

When Parents Share Their Drug Abuse Stories, Kids Follow In Their Footsteps
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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online When parents sit down to discuss drugs and substance abuse with their children, they might not want to volunteer information about their own past drug-related habits, according to new research originating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jennifer Kam, an assistant professor of communications at the school, and colleagues …
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Krissie’s Story of Recovery from Addiction to Opiates & Benzos

www.MalibuBeachRecovery.com – Krissie Bergo developed carpel tunnel syndrome while working as a legal secretary, and four botched operations caused her to also develop RSD. A workers comp doctor prescribed opiates and benzodiazapines, and that’s where the trouble started. In September 2008, a judge ordered Krissie into treatment. She spent more than 70 days at Malibu Beach Recovery Center, 62 of them just to detox. When she left, a pain management doctor put her on suboxone, a synthetic opioid. Two years later she came back to Malibu and successfully detoxed from suboxone. This is her story.