Few situations are more distressing for parents and loving family members than watching someone struggle with an addiction. A previously promising young adult may suddenly drop out of school or lose their job because they start abusing controlled substances. The...
New Hampshire has drug statutes that closely align with federal regulations for the most part. State law makes it a crime to possess various substances. People can also end up facing criminal charges related to the distribution or trafficking of prohibited or...
Teens today face challenges we never did. We did not have to navigate the benefits and risks of social media or grow up during a pandemic. Some are lucky enough to find healthy ways to navigate these stressors while others may fall into dangerous habits. As parents,...
If you find out that your teenager has been accused of using drugs, perhaps when the police tell you that they’ve made an arrest, you may be surprised. You never thought that your teenager had even tried addictive substances, much less used them frequently. You can’t...
Drug charges are a big issue for New Hampshire residents. Although social attitudes about recreational drug use and addiction have definitely changed in the last few decades, there are still many consequences people face when accused of a drug offense, including jail...
If you live with anxiety, you may know how significant it can be and how it has the potential to influence all aspects of your life. Your psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse may have prescribed you medications to take to manage attacks when they occur, but did you know...
Of all the prohibited street drugs, heroin arguably carries the most social stigma. People associate heroin with extreme addictive behavior, physical withdrawal, criminal activity, homelessness and other unsavory social consequences. While addiction can push some...
When your child is young, you'll be full of hope and optimism about what they could become, and you'll be excited by the potential you see in them to grow and blossom into a happy and successful adult. However, sometimes life isn't as easy and predictable as we...
When people face legal charges, the general public often assumes that they chose to do whatever it is they are accused of doing. Someone who gets arrested for using heroin, for instance, appears from the outside to simply be a person who chose to use an illegal drug...
Your relationship with your daughter has been teetering on a precipice ever since she entered her teen years. Arguments eventually turned into long bouts of silence, and then back to arguments. It often depended on the swirling moods present in the family’s...
