Energy Drinks and Drug Use

A recent study published in the 2010 American Society of Addiction Medicine, Volume 4, Number 2, has concluded that there is a ‘substantial and rapidly growing proportion of college students’ who use energy drinks and that this growing group tends to have a greater chance of using drugs and [...]

19 Killed at private Alcohol Rehab in Mexico

According to the LA Times article on July 10, 2010, 19 people were gunned down in the city of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. The gunmen first posed as police before breaking into the rehab clinic and killing 19 people including recovering addicts and staff members. There is no clear cut motivation for the killings as [...]

Are There New Approaches to Recovery for Alcohol and Drug Addiction?

As we have learned about more and more of the underlying changes in the brain, so too we have found and developed new approaches to treating different disorders and [...]