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Steps to a Solution—What to Do When You Know a Loved One is Addicted

When faced with an addiction within the family, the family members and loved ones of an addict suffer under these circumstances almost just as badly as the addict does. In some scenarios, the family members suffer even more than the addict does. This is...

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Does Marijuana Have Something to Do With Stroke? One Study Indicates So

Is it possible that marijuana has some negative health consequences that we did not know about? One study out of France indicates that there seems to be a strong connection with heavy marijuana use in young people and one type of stroke.

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How to Dispose of Pharmaceuticals Safely

Our nation and our society has become one of overmedication to the supreme . We live in a country that comprises only five percent of the world’s population, yet we consume seventy-five percent of the annual, global supply of prescription drugs.

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Fentanyl—The Deadliest Opioid Painkiller Hidden in Plain Sight

In 2015, the average, American life expectancy dropped. This was the first time the life expectancy went down since 1993. In 2016, it dropped again . This was the first time the U.S. average life expectancy dropped for two years in a row since 1965.

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OxyContin at the Top for Addictive Pharmaceuticals

To understand the drug problem our nation is faced with, one has to be ready and willing to face some facts that might be most unpleasant. But facing the truth about drugs and the truth about 21st-century drug addiction is something we all must do if we...

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The Real Cost of Meth Labs in a Community

With how common drug abuse is in the 21st century, there are many concerns and many “side effect” problems on a national level that come about from drug abuse and rampant addiction.

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Heroin and the Brain: What the Drug can Do to One's DNA

Let’s talk about heroin and the effect that this powerful narcotic has on the brain of a user. According to new research, long-term heroin use actually changes how genes are activated in the brain…

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Krokodil; A New Russian Drug Creating Concern in the U.S.

When we first hear that strange, almost alien name, the first thought that comes to mind is “crocodile.” This is no coincidence.

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Almost One in Ten Americans Suffer from an Addiction: An Analysis of Numbers

One of the biggest struggles our country currently faces is the sweeping drug and alcohol addiction epidemic. As cataclysmic events go, this one has been relatively underreported by the media. That is concerning in its own right.

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The Unheard of Risks that Drug Abuse has on Teens

Drug abuse has very specific and very damaging effects on people who partake in such activities. Different drugs have unique effects on people based on the drug being used.

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New Study Finds that Heavy Marijuana Use is Tied to Mid-Life Troubles

The subject of marijuana legality and its value or lack thereof has been a constantly and heatedly debated topic in the U.S. The “marijuana issue” has been under contention and argument for over a decade, with arguments for and against it being lobbed...

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How Marijuana Use is Tied to Social and Financial Problems Later On in Life

We’ve all heard the negative stories and stigma that surrounds marijuana use. “Marijuana makes you lazy.” “Marijuana will make you unintelligent.” “Marijuana will prevent you from achieving your goals.” The list goes on and on. But for the...

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Devil’s Breath in the United States

The deceptive, or problematic part of the Borrachero tree, which blooms with deceptively beautiful white and yellow flowers is that it produces a drug so hazardous that the drug eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims. The drug is called...

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People Die From Marijuana

We’re all acutely aware of the simple fact that cannabis (aka marijuana) won’t cause a person to overdose or otherwise stop breathing and therefore die—that’s what the studies have shown us. But, the research is clear that Marijuana has other ways...

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Supervised Injection Sites—A Solution to the Opiate Epidemic or a Contributor to the Problem?

In the morass of 21 st -century addiction, various states, officials, and focus groups have innovated very unique, alternative, and controversial approaches to the modern addiction problem.

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The Soul of the Indian

’Let neither cold, hunger, nor pain, nor the fear of them, neither the bristling teeth of danger nor the very jaws of death itself, prevent you from doing a good deed,’ said an old chief to a scout who was about to seek the buffalo in midwinter for...

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Most Dangerous Drugs

It should come as no shocker that some drugs are more dangerous than others. So, what is the most dangerous drug? Well, a quick inquiry with our friends over at the Center for Disease Control provides us with the answer.

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Cannabis DOESN’T Cure Cancer

No, cannabis can’t cure cancer. Here in Oklahoma, we have a vote coming up that will determine the will of the people to allow medical cannabis or reject medical cannabis in the State of Oklahoma.

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Drug-Free Life with Drug-Free Rehabilitation

In America, we have a pill for just about everything. But, is that pop-a-pill hyper-culture what’s stopping Americans from living a drug-free life?

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The Cannabis Link to Cancer

We’ve all heard the addict who claims they got off heroin using cannabis and I’m sure that’s possible and I’m sure that people will use that as an excuse to continue consuming cannabis.