Topic: drug abuse prevention

How To Prevent Drug Addiction: A Guide For Parents

Dr. Tali Shenfield

While taking drugs has always been risky, the introduction of new, more powerful drugs in recent years has heightened the potential for accidental overdose. As the tragic death of Chloe Kotval (a 14 year old girl from Ottawa, Canada) demonstrated, teenagers- even very young teenagers- are not immune to the perils of today’s “designer drugs.” All it took was one ...

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