Did you know this sign?
Missing spoons.
When you open your flatware drawer, do you see a lot of forks and knives but no spoons? This might be a sign that you have a family member abusing prescription drugs. Like its closely related cousin, heroin, rx drugs can be melted and injected, and this is done by holding the drugs on a spoon and heating them.
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Be responsible about your pain management.
Lock up your meds!
 Don't let the neighborhood get their illegal prescription drugs from you unwittingly. If you have a house cleaner, a baby sitter, a teenager, dinner parties, anyone at all in your house and you take prescription meds, lock them up!
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Greetings!
I'm thrilled to announce the release of my new book, How to Prevent, Detect, Treat, & Live With The Addict Among Us in print and ebook editions, with a foreword written by Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack. I wrote this in response to the over 1,000 people I have talked to since the publication of my first book, Defining Moments: A Suburban Father's Journey Into his Son's Oxy Addiction. While that book is really a memoir, this new one provides provides some answers to questions about how to deal with addiction in your own life, and maybe even prevent it. I have been working hard getting this book completed, and also have been out meeting more people who are affected by this terrible epidemic of prescription drug abuse, including the mayor pro tem of Mission Viejo, Rhonda Reardon, to whom I gave a copy of The Addict Among Us, and Aaron Ruben who is a quadrapalegic from an overdose and only has the use of two fingers, 1 for yes, 2 for no. He was in the movie with me. When his mom asked him was his life better now in this wheelchair trapped in his body than it was when he was an addict, he swiped 1 finger through the air to signal "yes". Please join me as I work to provide information to families before addiction takes over their lives, and provide support to others who, like me and my family, have an addict among us.
Best regards,
Bradley V. DeHaven
brad@rxdrugaddict.com
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What is a friend?
When "Craig" started overdosing, his friends drove him past two hospitals to a lonely highway median, where they dumped him. The coroner said he likely lived several hours there, and would have survived had he been given immediate treatment.
When "Derek's" mom came downstairs in the morning, she found her son in the same place she had left him with some buddies the night before-- in front of the TV, on the couch. Only, his friends were gone and Derek was dead.
These horrible tales, as well as "Martha's" story, are in my new book. But so is the hopeful story of a real friend, Andrew, who helped us get our son Brandon into rehab after he relapsed in 2010.
Read more here on my blog.
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| Brandon Update
I was grocery shopping with my wife Lisa last week, when I starting noticing some unfamiliar items getting dropped in the cart. Fresh spinach, quinoa, skinless chicken breast, oatmeal, whole grain crackers, a lot of fruits among others, all with a healthy theme. I didn't say much until the block of cheese I dropped in was promptly removed as Lisa stated, "We don't need that." I replied, "We are almost out of cheese!" and she said, "I know, but we don't NEED that." So I said, "What is going on in the grocery basket because it looks like it belongs to another family." Then Lisa told me about a conversation she had recently had with our son Brandon about eating healthier. Brandon has revealed a very creative part of himself, cooking dishes that are wonderful but have little or no fat and are very low in carbs. Check out this dinner!
Brandon is working towards a body fat ratio of less than 10% with a regimen of exercise and diet. I knew this, but I didn't know that Lisa was going to adopt some of this for us! Lisa reminded me how there was a time when we wondered if we would ever see our son alive again. When he was an opiate addict, there were months that I wondered where he was and if he was lying in some ditch somewhere. Now we get to talk to him about his healthy lifestyle. I feel so lucky, so blessed to have my son back and so focused on his heath after the darkness that once surrounded his every move as an addict. Okay, Lisa, I get it-if Brandon can come this far from where he was to where he is then we can manage to lose a few pounds and pursue a healthier lifestyle.
But please, don't make me quit cheese.
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