The number of addicted youth is staggering, if news reports are to be believed–thus the all-out war against drugs.
The scene is like a martial arts class—an elderly but wiry Caucasian leading a group of young Filipinos through a routine that emphasizes breathing and movement.
Newly crowned Miss International Kylie Verzosa has said the Philippines may be forgetting the mental aspect of drug addiction amid the government’s relentless war on drugs.
It’s been said that there is no health without mental health.
A group of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) from the Toms River First Aid Squad in New Jersey was moved when...
It’s not all about DNA, after all. A fascinating story on the front page of Inquirer held a lot of people enthralled last Sunday. Perhaps it has become one of the paper’s “most-read” stories to date.
Everyone in the country these days is talking about drugs: politicians, preachers, teachers, lawyers, law enforcers, parents. Everyone, that is, except those directly affected by drugs: drug addicts and users. Wouldn’t it make more sense to listen to what they think?
The extreme needs for sex and drugs are specific strategies to not feel emotional pain. Both approaches are forms of escape from reality.
