Pierce Atwood LLP announced the 4 nonprofit organizations that will take part in the Portland, Maine law firm’s 4th annual day of community service. The organizations will receive approximately 1,200 hours of volunteer labor from 200 attorneys and staff, from building fences to clearing trails, on July 20. (Read Pierce Atwood’s press release: Two Hundred…
Here are two news stories from this past week regarding teens, young adults and drugs that the public shouldn’t ignore. “Cheese Heroin” CNN had a story about a cheap and highly addictive drug that has killed 21 teenagers around the Dallas area in the past 2 years. The so-called “cheese heroin” is a mixture of…
Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu, MD, MPH was on the steps of the Maine State House yesterday warning parents about underage drinking. The Acting U.S. Surgeon General, along with First Lady Karen Baldacci and other community leaders, talked about how research has shown that alcohol can cause damage to the still developing adolescent brain. Research…
Cynthia Doucette visited Crossroads for Women for Women’s Residential Rehabilitation facility in Windham, Maine on Tuesday, June 5th to talk to women from the short-term and long-term mother and child residential programs about her daughter, Candice. Candice was 18 years old when she died of a methadone overdose in 2003. She was at a party…
Bob Curley wrote an interesting article on the Join Together website about the influence the addiction community has had over big corporations and corporate responsibility. Curley sites Anheuser-Busch’s recent decision to stop selling the controversial alcoholic energy drink, Spykes, as an example. (Read more about Spykes in Anheuser-Busch’s Marketing and Labeling of Alcoholic Energy Drink,…
New research shows that middle school children are getting alcohol from their parents. And we’re not talking about stealing booze out of the liquor cabinet when mom and dad aren’t looking. A new study, lead by principal investigator Kelli Komro, lead author Mary O Hearst and colleagues, found that more than one-third of the alcohol…
Chemical dependency is the loss of control over an addictive substance. It is an illness that strikes randomly throughout the population. It happens to people at all income levels, of all races, any age and both genders. It does not result from a lack of willpower or loose morals. Rather, it’s a terrifying, destructive, progressive…
The following is an unedited entry from Crossroads for Women for Women’s Residential Rehabilitation program Hope Book. Women who attend the short-term residential program are encouraged to write their thoughts down in the form of letters and poems for other women going through the program to read. We share these excerpts in hopes of helping…
Clients at Crossroads for Women for Women’s Residential Rehabilitation program in Windham, Maine recently had a group discussion about their experiences in substance abuse treatment. Many of the women in the group had previous experiences in treatment at varying levels. In all cases, Crossroads for Women for Women was their first experience with women-only treatment.…
Anheuser-Busch introduced a new alcoholic energy drink in January that’s getting a lot of attention from alcohol abuse prevention groups and attorneys general around the country. “Spykes” is described on an Anheuser-Busch wholesaler’s website as “a great alternative to hard liquor shots. A Spykes pour takes beer up a notch by adding a caffeinated rush…
