Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman running from the law for a whole year, but the real story is what she did while she was on the run. Heather Grey, 32, stole from C.J. Cannon's restaurant in Vero Beach where she was formerly employed, and was arrested for that crime. She broke her probation and fled, escaping ... Read More
Women’s Drug Rehab Center Loses State Funding
While it’s always disappointing when a good thing comes to an end, it’s especially hard when a program that helps people comes to an end as well. Mango Bay Retreat, a women’s drug rehab center, learned that its state funding would end at the end of June 2018. The retreat learned this from its managing body, the ... Read More
New Therapy To Treat Chemical Imbalances In Recovering Addicts
A new study centered on rats who were addicted to cocaine has revealed promising results when those who were given the therapeutic for serotonin 2C receptors became much less likely to pull the level for more cocaine even when related stimuli were issued. If the results prove to be the same in humans these would help ... Read More
Medicine Security: Not So Secure
After investigating the market of secured medication containers, it’s been found that there is no provider of truly secure containers for medicine. Those who purchase these containers to protect their prescription medication should be aware of the fact that the systems that they are buying are made to appear safe or ... Read More
From AA To Parenthood
The overwhelming nature of recovering from addiction is often likely to cloud one’s vision from the potential of being a parent. Christopher Dale recounts lessons he’s learned from AA and being a sponsor for other recovering alcoholics and how these lessons translate for how he plans to raise his own child to be a ... Read More
Two Florida Flakka Users Have Brush With Cops, One Swears Off Drugs After Bad Reaction
Drugs are certainly bad for people and quitting drugs, and going to rehab is generally the right move, but it’s not every day the users come to that realization themselves while they’re high. Melbourne police restrained two men in separate instances while they were under the influence of Flakka, a street drug with ... Read More
Health Care Fraud Takedown Expands to 601 People,.124 In South Florida
As reported before, the government has been cracking down on fake drug and opioid rehab in Florida and other key states, but the stakes just got bigger. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the “largest health-care fraud takedown in history,” involving over 1,000 police and other law enforcement officers ... Read More
Serena Williams Refuses Drug Test Citing Unfair Targeting By Regulators
While it is certainly laudable to ensure the purity of a sport by testing its players for unfair advantages like steroids and hormones, from the players’ perspective each test is a sacrifice of their privacy. So when Serena Williams, seven-time Wimbledon champion and 23-time Grand Slam winner, refused to submit to a ... Read More