If you live in Southeastern Pennsylvania or New Jersey and watch television, you will see regular commercials on the opioid crisis by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. He asks us all to raise our voices in order to mitigate the deaths that have occurred due to drug overdoses. We hear much about issues like terrorism, […]
What Happened When a Simple Errand Became a Trauma Trigger?
I often quote statistics on burdening issues like drug overdoses and trauma that are extremely difficult to deal with in our society. While disturbing to hear those statistics, the impact of them is far more distressing when you personally encounter what effects they have. This past weekend I had such an experience. I was driving […]
The Opioid Crisis
According to the American Psychiatric Association an estimated 2 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder related to prescription opioid pain medication. More than 33,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose in 2015. Accidental Addiction? Also more than two-thirds of Americans, 69 percent, say they “understand how someone accidentally gets addicted […]
