What We Can Learn From Celebrity Overdoses
When we turn on the news and find out that our favorite singer or actor/actress has died from a drug overdose, it takes us by surprise if we had no idea they had an addiction [...]
Why is the Internet So Addictive?
Just like how drugs change our dopamine levels where we depend on them to feel good, the same can go with the internet. You can have any information you acquire at your fingertips. It is [...]
Basketball Player Chris Herren Creates Foundation to Help With Addiction
Addiction can take a toll of anyone’s life including those who are famous athletes. One of them is former basketball player Chris Herren who suffered addiction for more than a decade. Herren broke the stigma [...]
Dilaudid Addiction
Dilaudid is a schedule II controlled substance for moderate to severe pain. It attaches to brain receptors and your central nervous system to dull pain and impact pleasure center. It is important to go into [...]
Legal Ways Teens Get High
Kids are still trying to find ways to get high without being caught with hard street drugs. They are looking at supplies they can find at home or grocery stores. It is important for kids [...]
Mixing Alcohol and Codeine
Codeine is a mild narcotic painkiller and cough suppressant. It is now a prescription only drug that treats moderate or severe pain. Recreational use of codeine symptoms include euphoria, memory loss, vomiting, and loss of [...]
How is Anger Linked with Addiction?
Anger comes in various degrees. Healthy people can get angry once in a while and move on with their day. Other people get easily upset by disturbances such as a verbal threat from someone or [...]
The Importance of Never Giving Up on Someone With Addiction
It can be very frustrating and devastating to see someone you love struggling with addiction. You may feel like they are a lost cause and want to run away from helping them. It is important [...]
History of Amphetamines
Amphetamines are nervous system stimulants to treat ADHD, narcolepsy, and obesity. Amphetamines used to be used to treat a variety of medical treatments until the dangers and abuse of the medication were too great to [...]
Do I Have An Addictive Personality?
There are some people that grow up with the mind of an addict with makes them easily exposed to addiction. They already had character traits in them that can help produce an addiction when introduced [...]