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Category Archives: drug addiction
Advice for Those Seeking Work: Spit Test for Drugs Speeds Hiring Process and Weeds Out Those Abusing Drugs
Drug or alcohol abuse in the workplace is a concern for employers for obvious reasons. Intoxicated employees have more accidents and are gone from work more often. It’s estimated that 65% of all job-related accidents are related to substance abuse. … Continue reading
Adolescent Drug Abuse Grows into Addiction Requiring Rehab Treatment
America’s young people continue to experiment with drugs in increasing numbers and at increased risk. The annual survey on adolescent drug abuse, the Monitoring the Future survey, shows that while alcohol consumption is declining slightly, more youth are abusing marijuana. … Continue reading
The Emotional Highs and Lows of Cocaine Abuse
There are specific and understandable reasons that drive people to abuse cocaine over and over again. These have to do with the short term effects the user considers desirable. Cocaine use produces a fast euphoria accompanied by a sense of … Continue reading
Mixing Cocaine with Other Drugs Contributes to Higher Adverse Effects
While it’s probably very hard for a non-drug user to understand the possible benefits of mixing addictive drugs, polydrug use is a very common phenomenon. According to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, polydrug use represents a … Continue reading
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Cocaine is Bad for One’s Heart – in More Ways than One
An article on the American Heart Association’s website outlines the various ways that cocaine is destructive for a user’s heart. According to the article “The Effects of Acute and Chronic Cocaine Use on the Heart,” cocaine is toxic to the … Continue reading
Cocaine Has Destructive Physical Effects Over and Above the Potential to Create Addiction
It’s well known that repeated use of cocaine can turn a person into an addict. What some people may not realize is that the drug itself has harsh physical effects. In fact, these effects can be so strenuous as to … Continue reading
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Colleges Turn Out to Offer Dangers as Well as Educations
The image of a young person, eighteen or so years old, heading off to college is one filled with hope and dreams of accomplishments and future careers. Parents look at their child going off to college with pride, but if … Continue reading
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More on – Is Drug Addiction a Disease?
If you are researching or studying the subject of addiction, you will come across many statements that addiction is a disease. Many professionals and government agencies present this statement in the guise of a proven theory. The idea can be … Continue reading
Are Teens Abusing Prescription Drugs While Parents Remain Unaware?
In reports from multiple sources, the picture is being drawn of increasing teen prescription drug use. One such report comes from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse and Columbia University( CASA). In their annual study published in 2011, … Continue reading
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Does America’s Academic Culture Practically Demand Addictive Drug Use?
When parents send their children off to college, few of them expect those children to become dependent on prescription drug abuse in order to succeed. After all, the earlier generation didn’t have pharmaceutical aids in such profusion. But on campus … Continue reading
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Tagged adderall, concerta, drug rehab, narconon, prescription drugs, ritalin, study drugs
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