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New Theory about Alcoholism and Addiction: What It Means
Insights from an Alternative Theory About Alcoholism and Addiction Is alcoholism a disease? Is drug addiction genetic? Since the American Medical Association declared drug and alcohol addiction to be a disease in 1956, modern medicine and psychology have largely...
What You Need to Know about Georgia’s Pill Mill Law
In 2013, the Georgia legislature initiated a crackdown on unregulated pain management clinics in an attempt to curb the illegal distribution of prescription narcotics. The Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act (HB-178, also called the “Pill Mill” law) implements strict...
Effective Therapies for Sex Offenders
If you’re convicted of a sex crime in Georgia, there’s no doubt your life can get quite complicated for awhile. You’ll appear on the sex offender registry, you may not be permitted to live within a certain distance from schools, parks, and so on. However, in putting...
How Prevalent are Sex Crimes at Colleges?
Sex Crimes on College Campuses: The Facts A controversial study from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) found 89 percent of college campuses reported zero incidents of sexual assault in 2015. They gathered crime reports from more than 11,000 campuses...
How Bad Is Prescription Drug Abuse on College Campuses?
Prescription Drug Abuse at College: What Parents Need to Know When sending kids to college for the first time, many parents remember all the “good stuff” they once experienced—the exhilarating freedom of being away from home; amazing adventures (intellectual and...
Your Child Was Arrested for a Prescription Drug Activity?
Your Teen Was Arrested on Prescription Drug Charges: What Now? Unintentional overdose deaths involving opioid pain relievers have more than quadrupled since 1999 and have outnumbered those involving heroin and cocaine since 2002. –National Institute on Drug Abuse It’s...