The good news, is that teens — according to the CDC — are using e-cigarettes more than they are using cigarettes, but that information is concerning when you consider the fact that the number of teen e-cigarette users has tripled since 2013. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. According to the report, from ...

Santa Clarita’s Action Family Counseling is offering one person a free treatment at one of their several intensive outpatient treatment programs, officials said Thursday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Action Family Counseling is granting a randomly selected person, or a friend or family member of that person, free treatment on April 20, ...

A Santa Clarita substance abuse specialist is discussing a new study on the effects of letting your kids drink with you, and the consequences he’s seen in his career. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. A new study, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, found that children who had ...

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Federal regulators approved “Palcohol,” a powder form of alcohol, last week, which means the novelty item could be on liquor store shelves this summer, officials announced Thursday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. “This product is going to be attractive to children and teens,” said Cary Quashen, founder and CEO of Action Family ...

Interventions can be the final step to get a friend or family member clean and sober, and how and when you go about doing that intervention is important, a local a substance-abuse specialist said Thursday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. There are many reasons to set up an intervention, it’s for the ...

Confusion about what’s in “club drugs” like Ecstasy, who’s making them and how they affect the user are raising concerns, a substance-abuse specialist said Wednesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Santa Clarita, like the rest of the world, has had its fair share of drug problems, and one drug that has been ...

Action Family Counseling founder and CEO Cary Quashen, a Santa Clarita Valley addiction expert, hosted an intervention on “Dr. Phil” to air Thursday at 3 p.m. on CBS. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Quashen has hosted thousands of interventions during his 30-year career, he said, and the family he helped this week ...

A new report suggests that the abuse of Benzos, or anxiety medications mixed with alcohol, is rising at an alarming rate — and in many cases ends in death. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Benzodiazepines are a type of medication known as tranquilizers, said Cary Quashen, of Action Family Counseling in Valencia. ...

About 80 percent of the world’s pain pills are consumed in the United States, which has just 5 percent of the world’s population, and many of those addicts turn to heroin, according to a recent CNN article. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. As a result, accidental prescription drug overdose is now the ...