Speed Still Kills

A 2007 study, conducted by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, provides researchers with additional evidence of a correlation between frequent amphetamine and cocaine usage among young individuals in Dallas, Houston and elsewhere in Texas and the occurrence of strokes.

Oxycontin the Deadliest Painkiller on the Market Today

These ingrediants we found to have miraculous results for finding relief from severe pain. Nonetheless, along with the relief came a very harsh side effect over long-term usage.

A Speed Freak For Energy Drinks? Damage May Come From Being Over The Limit

What supposedly makes these drinks healthier than a regular soda is that you also get some vitamins, amino acids, and herbal supplements. The average energy drink has very little of these added ingredients to be of any real health value.

Alcohol Detox - What Does it Involve?

As time passes by, the body of the alcoholic becomes more and more addicted to alcohol. Alcohol becomes difficult to resist as the body is so addicted that it starts to develop withdrawal symptoms within three to eight hours after the last drink. Alcohol detox includes taking medication to prevent these withdrawal symptoms once the patient stops drinking.

Discover The Benefits Of A Drug Rehab Program

If someone you love is addicted to drugs or alcohol, the best thing you can do for them is get them into a drug rehab program or alcohol rehab program instead of just watching them destroy their lives even further, bit by bit. Find out about these programs here.

Know the Lingo - Common Street Terms for Illegal Drugs

Weed, pot, bennies, rock, snow, dime bag... with drug use and abuse comes a large vocabulary of slang terms known primarily to dealers and addicts. A concerned parent or loved may be puzzled at first to hear such code coming from children, spouses, or friends, and consequently it may take time to realize drugs are being abused.

Prescription Addiction

The latest threat in drug abuse may just be lurking somewhere in your medicine cabinet. In the past few years, prescription addiction statistics has surged as compared to use of illegal drugs such as ecstasy or marijuana. In fact, data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2002 revealed that prescription addiction or the non-medical use of prescription drugs is now the second most popular category of drug abuse, after marijuana. The 2004 study even suggested that 1 in every 5 teenagers have taken prescription pain killers in order to get high.

Prescription Pain Killer Addiction

Mentioning the phrase drug addiction would usually make people think about illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine. But there are far more kinds of legal drugs being dispensed daily all around the world that can potentially become a source of addiction and physiological dependence.

Percocet Addiction

Percocet is a combination of oxycodone, a narcotic, and an acetaminophen. Their combination gives positive and synergistic effect in relieving moderate to moderately severe on pain. The effect caused by oxycodone is similar to morphine and other narcotics. It is also available as Tylox and Roxicet, and Endocet, among others.

Pain Killer Addiction And Abuse

Pain killer addiction and prescription drug abuse is one of the largest growing problems in America today. Pain killers and prescription drugs are more dangerous than you may think, as I have experienced first hand.

Get Rid Of Pain Killer Addiction Once And For All

Opioids used as the doctor has prescribed are supposedly not dangerous according to some well-established medical groups; but if this is the case, why are so many people addicted to them?

Wasted Sundays

It didn't matter which hangover I woke up with on Sunday, there was always one thing that never changed. My four year old son would have to suffer with a mother that was too sick and too tired to spend any time with him doing anything that resembled fun.

Drug Abuse Treatment

Drug abuse treatment can be a mild process or a severe one, depending upon the intensity of the use. Drug abuse treatment must start at home, for no counselor can be as compassionate as the nearer and dearer ones to the abuser.

Dear Addiction, Letter from a Mother- Part 2

As I look back on the last year, I recall taking my son to rehab on that cold February morning. There is no preparation for dropping your son or daughter off at rehab. Parents drop their kids off at friend's house for a sleep over or camp, they take them to their first day of 1st grade. I remember taking Eric to school 14 years ago...

Alcohol And Tobacco Now Make The Top 10 List Of Harmful Drugs

Landmark research proposes a new framework for the classification of harmful substances, based on the actual risks posed to society. For the first time the opinions of the scientific community and law enforcement establishments are coming into loggerheads with the legal classification of dangerous drugs.