DRUG EDUCATION

Dan Kane, MA, Ed.S, LPC in Local News
February 18, 2020

Narconon Arrowhead Educates Local Youth on Negative Impact of Drug and Alcohol Use

Canadian, Oklahoma is a community that has been challenged by drug and alcohol abuse for decades. It has suffered from the negative impacts that alcohol abuse and harder drug use including methamphetamine and crack cocaine can have on a small town.

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Ren in Drug Prevention
September 9, 2019

Leftover Prescription Drugs Are a Huge Liability

As parents, we want to take every precaution we can to protect our kids from harm. That’s just in our nature. Yet, even in the United States, one of the safest countries in the world, it seems like there is a never-ending array of dangers and risks that our children are faced with.

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Ren in Drug Education
July 10, 2019

The Importance of Drug Education in Schools

It has been said that a society is built on the quality of its education and that society is torn down when ignorance outweighs its knowledge. The United States ranks 17th in the world for student performance in reading, math, and science, according to The Guardian.

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Ren in Alcohol
April 17, 2019

Alcohol Awareness Month 2019

Innovated, funded, and sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Alcohol Awareness Month was first established in 1987 to help reduce the stigma associated with alcohol addiction. The driving force behind Alcohol Awareness Month was to encourage communities to reach out to the American public every April, for the duration of the month, with information and resources on alcohol, alcoholism, and recovery.

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Ren in Opioid Crisis
February 19, 2019

Should Medical Schools Teach Doctors about Addiction?

In a nation stuck in its worst addiction epidemic yet, one would think that our medical professionals would be fully prepared to help addicted patients. But quite the opposite is true. In fact, according to Jan Hoffman’s paper for CNBC, only about 15 out of 180 medical programs in the U.S. teach their medical students about addiction to alcohol, drugs, or tobacco.

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Ren in Alcohol
May 6, 2018

The Unheard of Risks that Drug Abuse has on Teens

Drug abuse has very specific and very damaging effects on people who partake in such activities. Different drugs have unique effects on people based on the drug being used.

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Karen Hadley in Local News
April 8, 2015

Unmask Addiction Campaign Helps Remove the Stigma of Addiction

The Salisbury, Maryland-based a.s.a.p.r. Integrated Marketing specializes in marketing, advertising, public relations, branding, strategies and communications. The marketing firm defines their approach to marketing communications as “highly creative yet extremely efficient.

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