Florida man, Wayne Barfield, steals $1600 Yorkie from pet store, sells it for crack
An expensive, 2-pound dog was stolen from a Florida pet store and when the man was caught by police, he revealed he sold the dog for crack cocaine. Wayne Junior Barfield, 38, was arrested after going in All About More...
New Life Lodge Case Still Full of Controversy
New Life Lodge really came to prominence due to the 2010 death of Lindsey Poteet. That event attracted a lot of media attention, particularly in the local area. However other deaths at the facility have increased More...
Foster Care System Sees Influx Due To Rising Heroin Addiction
An alarming rate of heroin use has swept across the United States and the consequences are devastating. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heroin addiction has almost tripled among young More...
Addiction Prevention: Ways to Avoid Heartbreak and Find Hope
There are a number of people who theorize that some of us are basically predisposed with a personality fault that makes us more vulnerable to addiction and that there is nothing that can be done about it. As the More...
Substance Abuse In Women: Causes, Effects, Challenges & Solutions
The definition of substance abuse encompasses the excessive and addictive use of any substance that alters the individual’s behavior, mood, and lifestyle. The substance could be a prescription medicine, tobacco, More...
Substance Abuse and Addiction: Global Issues
It’s no secret that the United States is in the midst of a drug epidemic. From the rising popularity of prescription medications to an increased use of drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, rates More...
Self-Motivation: Finding Powerful Inspiration From Within
How do small business owners become corporate giants? How do former drug addicts get clean? How do amateur songwriters make hundreds of thousands of dollars on YouTube? Answer: Inspiration. But, when you’re poor More...
When Drugs Heal and Harm
There is an old quote by the German-Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus which, roughly translated, means “The dose makes the poison.” In medical terms, this means that there are several substances that More...
Ashley Harper, Pittsburgh woman, arrested after smuggling heroin into a court room, hid from police on the roof
A Pittsburgh woman was arrest Friday after police found her hiding on a roof. Ashley Harper was found with 30 bags of stamped heroin entering family court for a drug screen, police say. Ashley Nicole Harper Court More...
Lance Armstrong confesses in Oprah Winfrey interview, but that may not be enough says anti-doping agency
Lance Armstrong began January by apologizing to the dedicated individuals of his Live Strong foundation and then went public in an interview with Oprah Winfrey to confess his use of PEDs. photo donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com Now More...
Vincent Jones, Nathan Manigo, men arrested after trying to smuggle heroin and crack in buttocks
Two men were caught concealing drugs in their buttocks in unrelated cases over the past two days, according to police. On Monday, Lackawanna County detectives found 30 grams of crack hidden in a man’s buttocks More...
California drug ring busted trying to smuggle meth out of the US disguised as Snickers bars
A California man, Rogelio Mauricio Harris, has been busted using Snickers bars to hide their smuggling of methamphetamine out of the U.S. Custom agents in southern California rooted out the alleged plan to Lots More...
Hans Rausing, Swedish billionaire, arrested after wife’s death
The son of one of the world’s wealthiest men, Hans Kristian Rausing, is under arrest in London after the body of his American-born wife was found in their home this week, her death unexplained. Photo/CRIME More...
Methadone involved in one-third of prescription painkiller overdose deaths:CDC
Although the narcotic pain-killer and maintenance anti-addictive drug, methadone accounted for 2 percent of painkiller prescriptions in the United States in 2009, it was involved in more than 30 percent of prescription More...
‘Teen Mom’ star Amber Portwood talks prison sentence, rehab, losing daughter
The “Teen Mom” star, Amber Portwood, was sentenced to five years in prison last week after she dropped out of a drug-treatment program the court ordered her to complete. Photo/ABC screenshot ABC reported that More...
