by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 23, 2018 |
Losing My Son to Addiction: One Year Later It’s been 10 months since I wrote “He’s Gone: A Mother’s Nightmare,” ever closer to that one-year mark. Some people call it an “angelversary.” How do you celebrate the anniversary of the death of the person you loved...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 22, 2018 |
Drugs, Alcohol, Suicide Killing More Americans Than Ever “Despair deaths” from drugs, alcohol and suicide have reached new peaks in the U.S. and are not just killing whites, but spiking in communities of color, as well, according to a new report released Thursday....
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 21, 2018 |
The Addicts Next Door At this stage of the American opioid epidemic, many addicts are collapsing in public—in gas stations, in restaurant bathrooms, in the aisles of big-box stores. ...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 21, 2018 |
OxyContin Maker will Stop Promoting Opioids to Doctors The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin said it will stop marketing opioid drugs to doctors, bowing to a key demand of lawsuits that blame the company for helping trigger the current drug abuse epidemic....
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 8, 2018 |
7 Ways Grief is Compounded by an Overdose Death Grief is a deserted island. No two people grieve exactly the same. You could be sitting in a room full of people who are all mourning the same loss as you, and still feel alone and misunderstood. This is because no two...
