20% of Teens Tried Prescription Drugs

Prescription for Disaster

The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) has published the results of a survey about teens and prescription drugs. Prescription For Disaster: how teens abuse medicine is an excellent resource for parents.

  • One in five teens have tried prescription drugs.
  • One in ten teens report abusing cough medicine.
  • Two in five teens think that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • One in three teens believe that there is nothing wrong with using prescription drugs once in a while.

Happy Birthday AA

Happy 75th Birthday AA

Twenty years ago on a cold snowy winter night in Akron Ohio, a co-worker and I visited the home of Dr. Bob, Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Over the course of the evening a dozen or so members of the Founders Fellowship dropped in for support, fellowship and some black coffee. It was an absolute honor to hang out in Dr. Bob’s kitchen and talk about sobriety with a direct line to where it all started. At that time they were celebrating 55 years of helping Alcoholics stay sober.