Opioid Crisis

Drug Dealing Sacklers Get Away with Mass Murder

$8 billion might sound like a lotta loot, but to the drug dealing Sacklers it’s just the cost of doing business — and staying outta jail! Getting Away with Mass Murder By now you’ve heard the news. How could you not? It was everywhere. Drug giant Purdue Pharma pled guilty to illicitly selling OxyContin to [...]

The End of the Opioid Epidemic?

The American Medical Association claims the opioid epidemic is letting up. Could this be the end of America’s most pressing health crisis? The Beginning of the End? Opioid prescriptions have reportedly decreased 33 percent between 2013 and 2018. That includes a 12.4 percent decrease from 2017 and 2018. So says the AMA anyway. And the [...]

Time for a New Angels in America

The Stigma: Then & Now When Tony Kushner’s Angels in America originally debuted in 1991, HIV/AIDS was considered a death sentence. It also slapped with a stigma that isolated and ostracized those with the disease, as well as their families. The same type of stigma is happening now with substance abuse and the opioid epidemic. [...]

Life is One Miracle After Another

Jason T grew up in Portsmouth, Ohio, setting of the opiate epidemic chronicle Dreamland. At 13 he was drinking. By 19 he was running with a drug dealer and shooting black tar heroin. “I was so strung out on that black tar; there wasn’t much I wouldn’t do for it. I have done several months [...]

The Heroines of “Heroin(e)”

Many folks — if not most — would see their town had become the overdose capital of America and throw up their hands in despair. Not Fire Chief Jan Rader, Judge Patricia Keller or Brown Bag Ministry’s Necia Freeman. And not Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon, whose Heroin(e) was just nominated for an Academy [...]

Reasons Why We’re the Optimal Treatment Center in South Florida

When choosing a treatment facility, it’s important to know that you’re choosing quality you can trust. Rehabilitation is a serious issue, and the decision to choose the best of the best should not be taken lightly. At Recovery Bootcamp, we pride ourselves in doing things a bit differently. We know that each patient who walks through our doors is different, [...]

The Best Outpatient Addiction Treatment in Delray Beach For Your Needs

Outpatient addiction treatment is on the minds of many in Delray Beach as the need for reliable and trustworthy addiction recovery becomes more and more prevalent. Here at Recovery Boot Camp, we understand the stigmas surrounding addiction and those who suffer from it. There’s no reason to waste any more time under the influence of [...]

How Casey Got His Skip Back

The shift was, as they say, palpable. A transformation so complete you could almost reach out and touch it. One minute a boy was dragging his feet; the next saw a man with a decided skip in his step. No, not through-the-meadow skip. But the skip of the confident. The skip of someone no [...]

Opioid Impact: Deadly Accidents Up; Life Expectancy Down

Drug overdoses killed more Americans in 2016 (64,000) than were lost in the entire 20 years of the Vietnam War (58,220); so it stands to reason that drugs would be responsible for an uptick in deadly accidents, as well as a downturn in life expectancy. What doesn’t stand to reason are the numbers — [...]

There’s More Than One Way to Fight an Opioid Crisis

Kentucky’s come up with a rather ingenious way to fight the opioid crisis and it begins by coming to terms with the fact that there’s more than one opioid crisis. “The government and media generally quantify the nation’s opioid problem on only one dimension: how many people have died. Kentucky [is] working to provide [...]

7 Steps for Ending the Opioid Crisis

Former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is calling upon Congress to take drastic action in combating America’s Opioid Crisis — and calling to the carpet all those complicit in making necessary such drastic action. The call, “A Seven-Step Plan for Ending the Opioid Crisis,” rings as loud and as clear as should [...]

The Practice of Saying “No!”

(Article 2: written for “The Addict’s Mom“) Nobody’s perfect. The understatement is as true as it is cliché. And if nobody’s perfect, then it stands to good reason that nobody does everything perfectly. We’re especially imperfect when it comes to saying “No” to our addicted child. That’s why we’ve gotta practice. And practice. And [...]

“NO”

(Article 1: written for “The Addict’s Mom“) The other day I was chatting with The Addict’s Mom’s own Barbara Theodosiou and she asked me, “What advice can you give mothers who have children that are still in active addiction?” “Learn how to say NO!,” I said. “Just how do we do that?”, asked Barbara. “PRACTICE!” [...]

America in Crisis: The Latest from Michigan, South Carolina & Tennessee

Three different states. Three different days. Same sordid story. The opioid crisis is continuing to take its toll, all across America. And all across the country, Americans are fighting for their very lives. In Tennessee, a Knox News piece by Rachel Ohm covering the highlights of the 2018 Economic Report to the Governor released [...]

Abstinence vs MAT: A Cautionary Tale

When Brad (not his real name) showed up on the doorstep of Recovery Boot Camp it was clear something was wrong. Not the usual “need to get clean and save my life” wrong, but something even deeper, scarier. To the RBC Team, “need to get clean and save my life” was about as deep and [...]

C.D.C. Reports Record Overdose Deaths for March 2016-2017

The numbers are in and they’re even more shocking than expected. In the 12 months stretching from March 2016 to March 2017, at least 65,094 people died of overdoses in the U.S. An 18.8% increase from the previous year. That’s one of the main findings in the Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts report recently filed [...]

One of the Good Guys

WPBF Anchor Tiffany Kenney recently aired a special investigation into Palm Beach County’s drug and alcohol treatment facilities and the battle being waged to rid the industry of its endemic corruption. At the forefront is Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, whose “Sober Homes Task Force has received national attention for targeting fraud and [...]

A Tale of Two Childhood Friends

(Lawrenceville, GA) On a single day in May, within one hour, on the same street in the same town, a mere half mile apart, paramedics were summoned to the homes of 19-year-old Dustin Manning and 18-year-old Joseph Abraham. Both teens had overdosed. And both were dead. The cause: heroin laced with fentanyl, a synthetic [...]

Recovery Boot Camp Speaks to the Associated Press

“In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, Timothy Schnellenberger, rear right, speaks with recovering addicts at his substance abuse treatment center, Recovery Boot Camp, in Delray Beach, Fla. Schnellenberger has operated treatment centers since 2002, and says that the influx of criminal operators has cast a dark shadow over an industry with deep roots in [...]

Drug Trends: Fentanyl

Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate drug that’s used to treat severe pain, and it’s far stronger than both morphine and heroin. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reported in 2007 that fentanyl was responsible for over 1,000 overdose deaths that year, according to the Foundation for a Drug Free World, and the Substance Abuse and Mental [...]

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