Ever Changing Synthetic Drugs Present Unique Dangers to Abusers

It’s a cat-and-mouse game played by chemists and drug dealers. Illicit chemists cook up slightly modified formulas of intoxicating and addictive drugs and the dealers sell them openly. Law enforcement personnel monitor these substances being sold and consumed and when people state showing up suffering harm, in emergency rooms or dead, they put the legislative [...]

Study Drug Use On College Campuses

In 2010, there was an undercover operation run at Columbia University to find the sources of drugs being dealt on campus. Most of the drug dealers were found on campus, in fraternity houses or dorms. Their supplier was off campus. When the drug dealers were arrested, they were found with supplies of not only LSD, [...]

Study Drug Abuse

Over the last decade or so, exposé after exposé on the use of “study drugs” — Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta and a few others — have provided a look at how widespread academic-oriented substance abuse really is. It seems that anyone with the gumption to pretend to be a student and walk around a campus asking [...]

Drug Trends

Current drug trends are showing a swing toward prescription drugs erroneously thought to be “safer.” Anyone trying to fight drug abuse has a peculiar challenge on their hands: keeping up with the shifting trends of substance abuse. Over the last few decades, drug abuse trends have shifted from “heritage drugs” like heroin and cocaine to [...]

Heroin Addiction

The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that the number of people using heroin over a one month period over the age of 12 is more than 200,000 on average. Heroin addiction is one of the biggest societal problems in existence today. There are many negative consequences of the problem including disease like tuberculosis, HIV [...]

Marijuana Addiction

Marijuana is a plant that contains a chemical called THC that when smoked or ingested produces a euphoric feeling.   Most people smoke marijuana by rolling it up into cigarette papers or by smoking it from a pipe which delivers the THC directly to the lungs and the brain, however, it can also be made into [...]

Cocaine Addiction

Drug addiction is lurking in every corner and, unfortunately, it takes innocent lives every day. Cocaine addiction has become popular over the past thirty years and is still in high demand. Many don’t understand how potent this drug really is and think it is ok to dabble in every once in awhile. Unfortunately, this dabbling [...]

Methamphetamine Abuse

Methamphetamine, or meth, is a highly addictive synthetic chemical that acts as a stimulant. It a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol and is snorted, injected, smoked, or swallowed. Where Does it Come From? In 1893, Methamphetamine or crystal meth was first developed from ephedrine. By a chemist named [...]

Facts on Methamphetamine

What is methamphetamine? Methamphetamine is a powerful and highly addictive synthetic stimulant.  This drug causes the users body to release an unnatural amount of dopamine, causing an intense euphoric high.  Methamphetamine can be compared to cocaine, in that it heightens alertness, inhibit appetite and the need for sleep.  However, the effects caused by meth will [...]

Methamphetamine Addiction

Information on Methamphetamine Addiction Methamphetamine addiction is a growing problem throughout the United States. Meth addiction affects everyone in some way or another. It does not discriminate or care who you are, it will take hold of you and destroy your life, whether you are young or old, no matter what race or ethnicity, or [...]

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