Friday, May 4, 2012
There are many tough topics you will have to tackle with your kids, but some topics, like substance abuse, can be particularly tough for some parents, given their own track records. This week we're talking about how to handle when you have "a history."
I think there comes a moment (or several) in every parent’s life when you come face to face with hypocrisy—your own. Whether you eat the healthy foods you tell your kids to eat, or hold your kids to a high expectation of achievement in school when you yourself weren’t the model of studiousness, as a parent you have to figure out how your own history of behavior figures into your parenting. Substance abuse is one of the topics that can be especially intimidating for parents to address, especially if they have their own history of use. How much do you reveal, and how honest are you with your kids about what you did when you were their age? What about your current behavior? Substance abuse continues to be high among teens, and according to a …
Friday, July 29, 2011
Members of the East Bay Regional Parks District Special Response Team have recovered shell casings from the site of Monday's attack on an officer – and aerial surveillance has determined that there is at least one marijuana grow site in the area.
Officers returning to the scene of Monday's shootout between a patrolling East Bay Regional Park District police officer and at least one armed subject found shell casings from a "high powered assault rifle" – and evidence of a marijuana grow in the area. Capt. Mark Ruppenthal said the attack has been classified as the attempted murder of a police officer and the investigation remains "active and open." Searches of the San Leandro Watershed south of Moraga are ongoing and will continue both in the air and on the ground, as needed, Ruppenthal said. "This was a very serious incident and we do not take these things lightly," he said Thursday. In a prepared release Ruppenthal reported that an EBRPD team returned to the crime scene – a largely …
Friday, May 20, 2011
Detective Jason Fredriksson, a Danville resident, surrendered Friday on one felony charge of transporting and furnishing the sale of marijuana.
A San Leandro Police narcotics detective who lives in Danville pleaded not guilty Friday to one count of illegally transporting and furnishing the sale of marijuana. San Leandro Chief of Police Sandra Spagnoli said during a press conference Friday afternoon that the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office filed a criminal charge against San Leandro Police Detective Jason William Fredriksson, 38, alleging he provided marijuana to a confidential informant for sale. Police said on March 10 he provided more than one pound of marijuana to a female informant with whom he had a "personal relationship." She is a San Leandro resident but is not an employee of the department. Fredriksson was admitted into police custody after surrendering Friday …
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Police say a teen trying to buy drugs was robbed at gunpoint in Village Green Park last week.
Authorities are looking for two men who robbed a teenager last week in what police say was a drug deal gone bad. The teen was looking to buy some marijuana from a dealer he didn’t know, who was supposedly from Dublin, police said. The dealer picked up the teen in a black, two-door Toyota and told him that they would go pick up the drugs, according to San Ramon police Lt. Dan Pratt. The suspect then drove the teen to Village Green Park off of Triana Way shortly after 10 p.m. March 29. The victim said that when he got out of the car, another suspect who was hiding in the trunk popped out and pulled a gun on him. The driver and the second suspect punched and robbed the teen of his backpack and cell phone before driving off, Pratt said. The …
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Parks police found the grow operation in a remote area of the East Bay regional park near San Ramon. Authorities are searching for a second suspect.
Police arrested a Pittsburg man Wednesday morning after finding 1,800 marijuana plants growing in an isolated part of the Las Trampas Regional Wilderness near San Ramon, East Bay Regional Parks police said. Authorities say Policarpio Gallegos, 63, of Pittsburg, lived at an encampent on the site, which is in unincorporated San Ramon about a half-hour away from the nearest hiking trail. Police spotted a second man at the camp, but he got away. Investigators from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, the state Department of Justice and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office raided the camp this morning. Both men ran from police, but only the one got away, according to the parks district. The suspect who escaped was described as Latino, in …
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Three students became sick after eating chocolate possibly containing marijuana, according to the San Ramon Valley Unified School District.
According to a report in the Contra Costa Times, three high school seniors became sick today after eating marijuana-spiked chocolate. One of the students, according to the San Ramon Valley Unified School District, was hospitalized as a precaution. District spokesman Terry Koehne told the newspaper that school administrators are investigating the incident. We will update this story when further details are available.
Kirsten Branch
12:09 pm on Friday, May 4, 2012
You are correct, Stuart, this particular study was measuring attitudinal fluctuations, and wasn't delving into other contributing factors, such as mental illness. Do you think there could be an argument to be made in this regard, given the attitudinal focus of this study, to say that perhaps attitudes about how we address mental illness (i.e."pop a pill") could be a factor, especially as children… more ›