Action Family Counseling is bringing the consequences of abusing drugs to the attention of the Santa Clarita Valley community and offering help through their program “Families in Action,” on KHTS AM-1220.

“We want to make some noise and want people to listen and know that the problem has not gone away and people are dying,” said Bob Sharits, an Addiction Specialist at Action Family Counseling. “Over 40,000 Americans in 2013 died from drug overdoses.”

The problem of drug overdoses in the Santa Clarita Valley is on the rise lately, requiring renewed attention from the community, according to Cary Quashen, Founder of Action Family Counseling and Sharits in the radio interview.

“At Henry Mayo, over 50 overdoses this year were treated successfully,” Quashen said. “There were three confirmed deaths in Santa Clarita as well as some unconfirmed. It’s the single most preventative death there is.”

Drug Overdose – Santa Clarita Drug Awareness

The leading cause of injury death in the United States has become drug overdoses, with around 52 percent of fatalities traced to prescription drugs, according to Quashen and Sharits. Many children have been getting into prescription drugs, ironically finding them in the safety of their own homes.

Action Family Counseling is seeking to make an impact for good in the lives of families by inviting those in the community to participate in the “Families in Action” program.

“Families in Action” airs every Monday from noon to 1 p.m. on KHTS AM-1220.

“If you are a parent and you have older kids you want support, it’s a great place to come,” Quashen said.

To learn more, watch the video below:

About Action Family Counseling

Action Family Counseling has drug and alcohol residential treatment locations in Santa Clarita, Piru, and Bakersfield; Intensive Drug and Alcohol Outpatient in Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Ventura, Pasadena, and Bakersfield, Action Family Counseling is here to help you.

Action Family Counseling’s primary goals are to maintain abstinence, stabilize co-occurring illnesses, and increase quality of life. We support and reinforce change in behavior patterns so that adolescents and adults, or clients and their families can fully indoctrinate the philosophies and principles needed to remain abstinent and stabilized for life.

Action Family Counseling accomplishes this by providing an effective treatment approach developed by the Department of Health and Human Services that includes a multi-disciplinarian personalized approach by a treatment team. Once a patient is identified, we provide an initial screening and assessment, which allows us to properly diagnose and place patients in the appropriate treatment setting.

Once a patient completes our intake process to our residential program he or she receives 24-hour crisis management, individual counseling, group therapy, family education and counseling, treatment planning, routine and random toxicology screening, pharmacotherapy and medication management, education about Alcohol and Other Drugs and mental health issues, self-help and support group orientation, case management services, and discharge service planning with a transitional service plan to our Intensive Outpatient treatment program to ensure a continuum of care.

For more information about Action Family Counseling, click here.