Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Drives Substance Abuse And Addiction For Some People

It’s not hard at all to understand why some people who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) would abuse drugs or alcohol. People who simply suffer from normal fears, insecurities or desires to not have to deal with life situations abuse drugs to blot out their perceptions of these situations, among other reasons. A person [...]

Crack Cocaine One Of The Cruelest Addictions Based On Crack Symptoms

Imagine the effect that could be created if the person who was about to smoke crack cocaine for the first time could sit down with a person who had been addicted for years. What if they could talk about the crack symptoms the addicted person had suffered? The things they had lost in their life? [...]

Narconon Reviews Plans For Upcoming Zohydro Release And Warns About Dangers Of Addiction

Many families may not know that they have one of the most frequently abused prescription drug sitting in their medicine chests right now: hydrocodone. Left over from a sprained ankle, dental work or past surgery, when the pain reduces, many people just leave the last few pills sitting there in case they need them later. [...]

Questionable Marketing Practices Push Young People To Drink Cocaine

It can’t be good when any food product markets itself through an association to an illicit drug. Particular when that illicit drug is addictive, ruins tens of thousands of lives every year and can even kill the user. But the beverage manufacturer Redux thought it was a good idea in 2006 to release a heavily-caffeinated [...]

Does America Need a Stronger Hydrocodone Formulation Or Will This Just Create More Addiction

The news hit the media in January 2012: The pharmaceutical company Zogenix is preparing to release a stronger formulation of a painkiller that is already heavily abused and addictive. The new formulation, dubbed Zohydro, contains five times or more of the amount of the opioid hydrocodone as earlier formulations Lortab or Vicodin. There are hundreds [...]

Are Magic Mushrooms The Right Answer To Mental Ills

Back in the late 1960s, when use of psychedelics and hallucinogens were spreading across the American landscape, one of the popular drugs was psilocybin. An ingredient in what was once called “magic mushrooms,” psilocybin is a drug that appears to produce an increase in awareness, while it can also produce hallucinations. Now, a doctor in [...]

Bath Salts Still Threaten Lives and Health of Those Not Familiar with Extreme Risk of Using this Drug

As time goes on and the damage from a new drug misleadingly named “bath salts” mounts, surely people are figuring out that this is a good drug to steer clear of. But for anyone who hasn’t yet heard the news, abusing these substances being sold as “bath salts” can kill you. These bath salts are [...]

Young People Need Thorough Drug Education and May Need Rehabilitation to Protect them from Synthetic Drugs

The primary customers sought by those manufacturing and distributing new synthetic drugs are America’s young people – those who are still curious about the effects these drugs will have on them. Those who have not yet seen enough damaging effects of these drugs to shun them. Those who still have that feeling of invincibility common [...]

How Well Educated Are American Teens on Smoking, Alcohol and Drug Abuse?

Every year, more than a billion dollars are spent in an attempt to keep Americans from abusing drugs and alcohol. In essence, the money is spent trying to keep people from harming or even killing themselves or others through the abuse of addictive, damaging intoxicants. If it worked, it would be money well spent. The [...]

Teen Drug Use Rises Teen Alcohol Use Declining

Putting American school children on the road to achievement. It’s not necessary to debate what might be wrong with our educational system. There’s one task that will improve the process for every student in every school. That is eliminating drug abuse among our young Americans. Easy to state, not so easy to accomplish. After all, [...]

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