We’ve all been through D.A.R.E classes in our younger years at school, but how many of those drug addiction education classes actually seemed to help anyone? After all, drug addiction and overdose rates are at an all-time high, with studies showing that 23.5 million American’s today are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. In Staten Island...
New guidelines have been released by the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that encourage doctors to avoid prescribing opioids to their patients and instead offer treatment alternatives such as physical therapy or non-addictive painkillers. Though opioids have many positive benefits medically, the risk has been increasingly outweighing the benefit. For every five people...
