A 'Shooting Galleries' Heroin Strategy Would Miss the Target Completely

A 'Shooting Galleries' Heroin Strategy Would Miss the Target Completely
"Drug consumption rooms" or "shooting galleries", are generally taken to be publicly or charitably provided, supervised "clean rooms" where addicts can take "street drugs" and inject, away from the street. Usually they need specific exemption from … Read more on IBTimes.co.uk

The five signs your child is addicted to their iPad – and how to give them a …
In effect, it is giving them a 'hit', similar to a drug user. This unhealthy dependence doesn't just mean the child becomes … that the addiction may manifest itself in other behaviours. Technology addiction can impact a child's sleep, interfere with … Read more on Daily Mail

Health bosses refuse to tell grieving mom why her son died
Lynn Spencer, whose 25-year-old son Christopher died in October last year after battling to beat his heroin addiction, is to launch a chapter of GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing) on the Island. GRASP is an American organisation, with … Read more on Royal Gazette

Parents still turn to troubled-youth ranches
There are few options for parents like Hall, and in that vacuum, a relatively unregulated, off-the-grid industry of reform youth camps has flourished, despite a decade of high-profile cases alleging beatings and other abuse at some camps. Proponents of … Read more on Pensacola News Journal