Our national opioid addictions crisis affects 2.5 million individuals. The state-to-state statistics are devastating, and we are continuing to see the impact of this epidemic rise. It feels like a public health crisis both out-of-control because it is unsurpassed in American history. I usually appeal to professionals who are exposed to high-risk drug abusers, but […]
Report Says Drug Overdose Deaths at All Time High in Philadelphia
This week the Philadelphia Department of Public Health released an alarming report: 1217 unintentional deaths due to drug overdose in the year 2017. This is a 34% rise from the prior year. Perhaps most significant is the number of deaths from overdose in Philly marks an all-time high, outnumbering deaths due to homicides. According to […]
A Call to Arms—The Human Kind
According to the MacMillan Dictionary, a call to arms is “something that makes people want to take action and get involved in an attempt to deal with a bad situation.” This is a call to arms for all parents, caregivers and those who care about the emotional health of children to let them know how […]
A Story on Parenting a Trauma-Impacted Child
Many traumatized children could really use a stable home. I am so impressed by parents who foster parent or adopt a child who has a history of trauma. So many children from dysfunctional backgrounds have nowhere to go and end up in the foster care system being passed from home to home. This constant change […]
The Complexity of Trauma
I was recently presented to a group of professionals on the topic of trauma where the discussion led to the varied aspects of brain regulation. I showed some slides revealing the consequences of dysregulation and what it creates in the brain and in your body. Also discussed, among other issues, was functional IQ, respiration, heart […]
Anxiety Disguised as Anger
Recently a friend shared with me how difficult it was every time he had to take his children back to their mother’s house after spending the day with them. “We always have such a good time together and they seem happy and love to play and are cheerful and cooperative even when they have to […]
Traits of a Psychopath
In a world where we hear about shocking experiences committed by someone close to us, it is difficult to understand exactly what happened. Often the path to destructive behavior seems subtle and gradual and we don’t realize until after a significant tragedy that the individual was experiencing some significant mental health struggles. Particularly when the […]
An Opioid Story and Systems of Alarming Abuse
Every now and again, a story like the one of Jamie Daniels emerges. It is a story of an individual who desperately needed a drug addiction program, went to a system where there were a number of “Sober Houses” that were an extension of drug rehabilitation programs in Florida. Sadly, some programs abused insurance companies, […]
How to Shift Revenge to Compassion
I think most everyone would agree we are living in an era of anger and even outrage over perceived and real acts of violence. Accusations are being hurled back and forth among many political sectors, and many are demanding what they call justice – but perhaps it is actually revenge. Are our children learning our […]
Do You Know about the Widespread Use of Carfentanil – A Powerful Opioid?
At a recent community event, I listened to Rob Reed from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office speak to the issue of opioid addiction. Across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, there is an epidemic that has resulted in 5400 deaths due to overdoses. This epidemic has also created an 81% increase in emergency room admissions due to […]
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