by HomeOfEighT8 | Jul 3, 2014 | Featured Article, Health, Resources
Article by:Â ERIN MARIE DALY, GENERATION RX Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book “Generation Rx: A Story of Dope, Death, And America’s Opiate Crisis” by Erin Marie Daly, a former legal journalist....
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Advice, Health, Parenting
During the summer of 1996, when I was 11, I became drastically sick with lupus. I was admitted to Children’s Hospital Boston and put on high doses of steroids, which made my face puffy and round and made me gain 80 pounds. Despite frequent hospitalizations, the...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 27, 2011 | Health, Resources
A disturbing fact: Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people in Canada. Another fact:Â Although much information exists on suicide prevention and intervention, there is little research and few resources which examine the impact of a suicide...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 7, 2011 | Parenting, Resources
To reduce crime, we must support families and provide opportunities for children The things that make communities safer from crime lie beyond the criminal justice system: they lie beyond the jurisdiction of law enforcement, courts, corrections. The criminal justice...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 7, 2011 | Advice, Health, Parenting, Resources
PURPLE Program and Its Research The Period of PURPLE Crying® provides educational information about the properties of normal infant crying that are uniformly frustrating to caregivers, and appropriate action steps that caregivers need to know. Inconsolable infant...