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1: Heroin Addiction

Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It among the most abused and fastest acting of the opiates (opiates, also called narcotics, are a family of drugs which are used in the medical professio...

By: Jack Smith

2: Drug Abuse Treatments

As treatment of drug abuse should suit the specific needs of the individual concerned, there is no one treatment that can be used in all cases. The choice of treatment also depends on which drug is...

By: Jennifer Bailey

3: Teen Drug Abuse

Drug abuse by teenagers is very common, which can lead to disastrous consequences in the future. A large proportion of deaths in people between 15 and 24 are reportedly connected in some way or the...

By: Jennifer Bailey

4: Morphine: A Pain Medicine and Addiction

Morphine is an opioid analgesic and is used to treat moderate to severe pain. Morphine pain medicine works by affecting how the body senses pain. While effective in treating pain, morphine can be q...

By: Serhat Pala

5: Prescription Drug Abuse and Pill Withdrawal

Prescription Drug Abuse, or pill addiction as it is commonly called, and, ultimately, 'pill withdrawal' have been with us since doctors began prescribing drugs, but has become more widespread sin...

By: Peter Nisbet

6: Alcoholism and Marijuana Smoking

Given the high prevalence of alcohol consumption and marijuana smoking, it may be conceived of normative developmental experience. Although light substance use may be a normative and adaptive behav...

By: Michael Russell

7: Addiction Treatment Is A Choice

People become victims of substance abuse for different and often inscrutable reason. But whatever these reasons are, it is undeniable that this problem wrecks havoc in the lives of its victims and ...

By: William Teleo

Morphine: A Pain Medicine and Addiction

Morphine is an opioid analgesic and is used to treat moderate to severe pain. Morphine pain medicine works by affecting how the body senses pain. While effective in treating pain, morphine can be quite addictive and can be...

By: Serhat Pala

Alcoholism and Marijuana Smoking

Given the high prevalence of alcohol consumption and marijuana smoking, it may be conceived of normative developmental experience. Although light substance use may be a normative and adaptive behavior, a significant minori...

By: Michael Russell

Addictions - Alcohol

Alcohol is one of those addictions that unfortunately starts off very early in a person's life. Most people who become addicted to alcohol have addictive personalities to begin with but usually it takes more than that to s...

By: Michael Russell

When Reid surrendered on charges related to that crash in October, prison guards found 89 prescription pills inside his rectum. He was sentenced Tuesday via video conference from a facility in Camp Hi...

The term 'heroin addiction' conjures up images of the down and out, malnourished and skeletal, banging up drugs in a backdrop of squalor with a dirty syringe full of god knows what; a tatty piece of c...

Garrett had pleaded guilty in May to trying to smuggle dozens of pills into a jail Reid was serving time in the jail for a heroin-fueled car crash NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- The son of Philadelphia Eagle...

The federal government regulates everything from breakfast cereal and hair dye to horse feed and breast implants. The list of items regulated by our government includes just about every consumable pro...

?A new Detroit News /WXYZ-TV/EPIC-MRA poll of MI LVs, conducted 7/13-16, shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 43-41%. McCain led the previous poll, conducted 5/19-22, 44-40% (release). ?After meetin...