This Heartbreaking Obituary Sends a Powerful Message About Drug Addiction
If you have any loved one's who are fighting addiction, Molly's family asks that you do everything possible to be supportive, and guide them to rehabilitation before it is too late.” She dropped out of community college after a year, and her father Tom … Read more on TIME

Upscale rehab center planned for Abita Springs
They said the parish has the highest prescription rate for anti-addiction medication per capita in Louisiana and one of the highest rates in the country. People at the center won't be on lockdown, and it won't be surrounded by giant walls, but they … Read more on The New Orleans Advocate

Excise, NGOs to work together for rehabilitation of drug addicts: Mujtaba
LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Law, Excise& Taxation and Finance Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has said that Excise & Taxation Department, in collaboration with NGOs will rehabilitate the drug addicts and centers will be established at parks, grounds and … Read more on Customs Today Newspaper

Right to Try bill for terminally ill passes
A bill is now headed to the governor to allow physicians to prescribe experimental drugs, products and devices to terminally ill patients who have exhausted all other legal treatment options. The Senate concurred today with changes made in Senate Bill … Read more on Jackson Clarion Ledger

Children's Hospital to expand onto former NOAH property
The hospital continued as a federal facility until 1981, when it was shut due to budget cuts and sold to Louisiana, which used it as a drug-treatment center before it evolved into NOAH. The hospital was once again the victim of budget cuts in 2009 … Read more on The New Orleans Advocate

Debating the Ethics of Experimental Drugs
Eight states—including Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, and Missouri—have passed “right to try” laws that say that patients who have exhausted all other treatment options can gain access to experimental drugs as long as they have a physician's … Read more on BU Today

NIH medical research funding is vital in Louisiana and across the nation: Dr …
LSU Health New Orleans research programs address some of the most important health issues today — cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, childhood obesity, Alzheimer's disease, stroke and substance abuse. Recent discoveries made by our faculty … Read more on The Times-Picayune – NOLA.com

From jail cell to voting booth, ex-prostitutes and drug addicts find a voice …
"I've never voted in my life," the 30-year-old Louisiana native said with a shrug. "I don't even understand politics." Fisher came to Houston five years … Those who do are moved to a "tank" at the jail where they all live, and where specialists visit … Read more on Houston Chronicle

Fighting an Epidemic With Hands Tied
Organizing workers in West Africa has been a problem. Credit Daniel Berehulak for … Although there are currently no drugs or vaccines approved in the United States to treat or prevent Ebola, health officials have used several experimental drugs in … Read more on New York Times

L.A. County backs laws allowing access to experimental drugs for the …
“Terminally ill patients should not have to navigate the FDA's bureaucratic process to access a drug and treatment that may help save their life,” Antonovich, who is in Washington, D.C., and did not attend today's board meeting, said in a statement … Read more on MyNewsLA.com

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Report says Mathieu in rehab
NEW ORLEANS – Former LSU star Tyrann Mathieu has entered a drug rehabilitation program in Houston since being dismissed from the Tigers, according to a television report. Fox 8 reports that Mathieu's adoptive father, Tryone Mathieu, says that the … Read more on Daily Breeze

Crackdown on Rehab Fraud Misses Clinics with Troubling Audits
State regulators have frozen funding to scores of clinics since The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN uncovered rampant fraud in Drug Medi-Cal, part of the nation's biggest Medicaid system. The crackdown has hit 88 clinics with 135 satellite … Read more on PublicCEO.com

Events Listings: March 21 to 27, 2014
The Dangers of Gambling, a prevention education program for all ages presented by the Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services. … Other films include “Philomena,” “Nebraska,” La Camioneta,” “Liv and Ingmar,” “Gloria,” “The Great Beauty,” “In Secret … Read more on Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

Lil Boosie Admits To Penning 1000 Songs During Prison Bid
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rapper Lil Boosie says serving prison time in a Louisiana prison was life changing and it's made him a better person and ultimately, he hopes, a better artist. Lil Boosie, whose real name is … to get back into the studio. While … Read more on Huffington Post

Parents, kids find help at Nexus Recovery Center
Kendall, 27, is a graduate of Nexus Recovery Center's substance abuse rehabilitation program, and also of its newest addition — the pregnant and postpartum intervention program, or PPI. “I was a former Nexus Recovery Center client, and I was asking … Read more on Dallas Morning News

APNewsBreak: Astros prospect details drug struggle
And for the first time publicly, he's opening up about his battle with an addiction to marijuana and monthlong stay at a rehabilitation center. "At this point it's pretty evident to me that I'm a drug addict," he told The Associated Press over … Read more on WAFB.com

Question by Rachel?: Interesting Facts on “changing someones life”?
I didnt really know how to word my question, but i found this on a myspace profile:
[5,388] youths are arrested.
[4,219] teenagers got an std.
[3,610] teens are assaulted.
[80] are raped.
[2,861] teens drop out of school.
[1,377] teenagers become mothers.
[1,106] teenage girls get an abortion.
[1,000] adolescents began drinking alcohol.
[500] adolescents began using drugs.
[420] children are arrested for drug use.
[6] commit suicide…
in one day.
lets make somes life a change

Can you tell me anymore facts like the ones above? thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by ThaTaz
I always doubt the kind of “facts” that you posted since there is no source. I’ve seen “facts” like that that has spread all over the internet, blogs, forums, groups, mail and so on. With no source it might as well be something that someone made up, in many cases it is, all with a good intent of course. Searching the facts you posted with Google I found them on 6 360 pages. I’ve looked through some of them (picking them randomly) and I can’t find anyone that posts a source. The list also changes from list to list sometimes there is more on the list, sometimes it’s children not teenagers and so on. It’s sad really, if the list is real and factual then it loses credibility because it lacks a source.

This site lists different statistics about teenagers and they list the sources too:
http://www.soundvision.com/Info/teens/stat.asp

This page has a list of articles about teens and alcohol and drug abuse:
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/teens/Teens_and_Substance_Abuse.htm

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

BreakAway takes fourth place in contest
The contest was held in observation of National Drug Facts Week and can be found online at http://sparkaction.org/changemaker/mythbusters-breakaway. Hunter Laughhunn, Jacob Murphy, and brothers Spencer and Will Sharp are classic … but also use their … Read more on Journal Gazette and Times-Courier

State wants to use marijuana fees to advertise against marijuana
He said these would parallel existing DARE programs — Drug Abuse Resistance Education — which already exist in schools to convince kinds to "just say no' to alcohol and drugs. … "It's a fact that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol,' Tvert said … Read more on Verde Independent

Hoffman's Death Highlights Heroin Epidemic: 4 Facts To Know About The Drug …
In the United States, mortality and addiction rates blamed on heroin are on the rise, and a fentanyl-tainted batch of the drug recently went cross-country across America, causing scores of deaths in a handful of states. Here are four things you need to … Read more on Bustle

Sentencing commission backs lesser pot penalties
A commission that advises the governor on criminal sentencing issues is backing legislation to reduce penalties for simple possession of marijuana. 25 facts about marijuana. The 25 facts in this slideshow come from the National Institute on Drug Abuse … Read more on WDSU New Orleans