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
How the New Hampshire drug courts help those facing charges
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...
Could your anxiety lead to drug charges or a DWi?
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...
Pain management is crucial but also leads some to heroin abuse
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...
How can I help my drug-addicted child?
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...
Drug addiction can lead to legal charges
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...
Critical steps to improving outcomes in drug cases
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...
A drug conviction may no longer mean a loss of financial aid
Many people see youth as a time of experimentation. If your child is among them, you may have already navigated these waters in high school. Conversely, maybe your child always behaved while under your watchful eye, but you now have concerns about whether he or she...
Drug use, criminal behavior, prison or the alternative
Many addicts begin taking drugs at an early age simply because they are available. They can get them. Other people become addicted to the prescription doctors give them for a medical condition. In the state of New Hampshire, chemical addiction is often intertwined...
Fentanyl—the illegal drug of choice in New Hampshire
Many people who become addicted to drugs go down that path because their drug of choice was a legal prescription at one time. Classified as a Schedule II controlled substance, fentanyl has become a major problem in New Hampshire in terms of addiction and death. About...