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Trying to Combat Growing Drug Trade in Oil Patch

Trying to combat growing drug trade in oil patch

Filed under: Street Names For Crack Cocaine Users

… 29, came to the Bakken in 2010 to escape drugs. He'd been heavy into meth and crack back home in the Chicago suburbs and decided to start over, moving to North Dakota. … Purdon says the sale and use of illegal drugs, much of it tied to the latest … Read more on Kitsap Sun

 

Heroin: FDA approves easy-to-use overdose antidote

Filed under: Street Names For Crack Cocaine Users

How Many Pills Per Day Is Considered “abuse”?

Question by stellascura2000: How many pills per day is considered “abuse”?
Please, I am not interested in personal stories. Just numbers. It can be any pill. Bought over the counter, prescribed, or street drugs.

Best answer:

Answer by Bob Young
ANY pill that you take that is not for medication is abuse. So if you take just one pill for no medical purpose, that is abuse.

Answer by Will R
Its considered abuse when you’re no longer taking them as prescribed / taking them past the point when they are needed.

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Alcohol Awareness Month: Alcohol Is the Deadliest Drug for Teens

Alcohol Awareness Month: Alcohol is the deadliest drug for teens

Filed under: what is drug abuse and its effects

In a recent national survey of parents and teens by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 33 percent of teen partygoers have been to parties where teens were drinking alcohol, smoking pot, or using cocaine … Read more on Journal Times

 

Penn Medicine points to new ways to prevent relapse in cocaine-addicted patients

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Is This an Addict…..?

Question by T: Is this an Addict…..?
a person who used a lot of meth (and other drugs heavily) as a teenager with all the traditional “addict” problems, quit that and was drinking heavily (sometimes with a few other drugs) through college with some addictive behaviors but not really out of control, quit that and has successfully been drinking socially (an occasional binge) for the last 3 years with no addictive behaviors and without following a treatment plan.

Effects of Meth Use on Brain Metabolism, Sleep Studied

Effects of meth use on brain metabolism, sleep studied

Filed under: physical effects of meth use

Wisor-80 SPOKANE, Wash. – WSU sleep scientist Jonathan Wisor has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effects of chronic methamphetamine use on brain metabolism and sleep. The two-year, $ 395,577 grant comes from … Read more on WSU News

 

How Ravers Pioneered the Drug Trend That Killed Philip Seymour Hoffman

Filed under: physical effects of meth use

There's Life After Drugs, Dubai Former Addict Says

There's life after drugs, Dubai former addict says

Filed under: cocaine substance abuse

Now fully recovered, he's picking up the pieces to tell others that there's life after substance abuse. “I tried to kill myself when I was 18, … “I was on hashish, heroin, different kinds of tablets, ecstasy, and cocaine,” Salman said. “I was always … Read more on gulfnews.com

 

Joint efforts vital to global war on drugs – Russian official

Filed under: cocaine substance abuse

Lamar Odom Arrested for DUI, Is His Career Over?


Lamar Odom Arrested For DUI, Is His Career Over? – We discuss Lamar Odoms recent addiction and legal troubles and if he can rebound from this and get back into the NBA Thanks For Watching Subscribe And Spread…

 

There's something about Molly

Filed under: Drug Addiction To Crack Cocaine

While medical experts don't call it safe, the risks of MDMA use are slight compared with other illegal street drugs such as crack, crystal meth, and heroin. “I don't know of any clinical trials that show it's addictive,” says neuropharmacologist David … Read more on Boston Globe

Meth Addiction Treatment


Meth addiction treatment – http://drug.addictionblog.org/help-for-meth-addiction/ Meth addiction treatment l Addiction Blog There are three phases following the meth addiction treatmen…

 

Maryland Toughens It's Stance On Synthetic Drug Use

Filed under: Crack Addiction Treatment

Simply put, they are popular alternatives to traditional street drugs (e.g., marijuana, cocaine) which have only recently been added to the federal Controlled Substances Act. … of and possession with intent to distribute synthetic drugs can lead to … Read more on Eye On Annapolis

 

Animal Abuse Using Your Tax Dollars Interview With Anthony Bellotti, Founder

Animal Abuse Using Your Tax Dollars Interview with Anthony Bellotti, founder

Filed under: methamphetamine abuse and addiction

The public has the right to know about the 31 years its tax dollars have funded Professor Marilyn Carroll at the University of Minnesota who forcibly addicts animals to illegal street drugs. Rosenberg: The researcher who received $ 3.6 million in the … Read more on OpEdNews

 

Dyess a big hit at law retreat

Filed under: methamphetamine abuse and addiction

Operation Street Smart Seminar Offered

Operation Street Smart seminar offered

Filed under: physiological effects of methamphetamine

Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. The seminar will provide current narcotics information on trends, terminology, paraphernalia and physiological effects. It will include actual examples of current designer street drugs such as XTC, LSD, GHB … Read more on Lancaster Eagle Gazette

 

Combining Biochemical Pathways to Longevity: Toward a Recipe for the Youth Pill

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