drug abuse
A Pill for a Pill
Doctors are compelled to label addiction as a disease in order for there to be something to treat and continue to medicate. Ironically though, more addicts are created from prescription drugs prescribed by a doctor. Hundreds of thousands of addicts turn to the Medical profession for help only to wind up with an addiction in [...]
Using Drugs Could Do WORSE Than End Your Life
A recent report by Russell R. Russo, MD at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, identified a new source of life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis – bath salts. WebMd defines Necrotizing Fasciitis as a dangerous infection of soft-tissue which starts in the subcutaneous tissue (just below the skin) and spreads along the flat layers of fibrous tissue [...]
Bath Salts and Spice: The New Designer Drugs
Bath Salts and Spice (K2) have become the new designer drug. They are inexpensive, readily accessible drugs found in gas stations and thrift marts. What’s not widely known is that Bath Salts and Spice can cause a psychotic break resulting in permanent brain damage and even death. A school in San Diego, California, recently showed a video [...]
How to Use Heroin
That gets my attention. Tell me what kind of high I can anticipate. I’m not worried about high blood pressure, risk of death, vomiting, diarrhea, severe itching, flushing, collapsed veins… That is what I want to know: How’s the rush? What’s the high like? Will I think anymore about the bullshit that has become my life? Will I forget that [...]
Bath Salts No Excuse
There’s no question that wherever you find illegal drugs you find problems, but a recent case has shown that curiously, sometimes an illegal drug can serve as a scapegoat for criminal activity. A suspected New Jersey murderer who claimed that the designer drug “bath salts” was responsible for causing him to kill his girlfriend, and [...]
Rapper Lil’ Boosie Sentenced
You would think that being incarcerated would make it tough to commit crimes, but if you’re Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, you find a way. On November 29, local hip-hop star Torrence Hatch, known by his stage name Lil Boosie, plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle codeine syrup, marijuana, and ecstasy into two Louisiana state [...]
Medicare and Prescription Drugs
The use and abuse of prescription drugs is all over the news on a daily basis. There are systems that are being put into place so the authorities can monitor what we are doing with these drugs. One of the systems is a database of what drugs you are taking and how much. The Medicare [...]
Candy protested for promoting marijuana legalization
Parents, city leaders and anti-drug activist of Buffalo City, N.Y. were upset that there is candy shaped like marijuana that is showing up on the shelves of stores in the area. They were upset because they feel that they are already fighting a battle against high drug abuse rates, so they don’t think doing this [...]
The Ten Worst “Drug Abuse Makeovers”
Drug abuse isn’t pretty or glamorous. You’ve heard it said that drugs can destroy your health and your appearance. Put it another way: drug abuse and addiction gives you a reverse makeover. Here are our top ten reasons not to use abuse drugs – in pictures… 10. This picture shows the effects of meth addiction [...]
What Makes Narconon Riverbend Different
Most people think that addiction is a disease; but when you go to Narconon Louisiana Riverbend Retreat their viewpoint is different. The staff there help people work on the underlying problems and reason why they started using drugs to begin with. A wonderful thing happens when a person’s issues are isolated and handled. The person [...]
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