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 to learn that while these substances may be easy to acquire, they are still no safer than illegal drugs. At homes, parents may tend to [...]
What are the Benefits of Avoiding Alcohol?
It can be hard to avoid alcohol when your friends want to get a drink with you or you are constantly passing bars with people having fun while drinking. If you have never touched alcohol before, you will have a better chance of living a long, healthy life. If you learn about the true negative effects alcohol can have on [...]
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 coordination and motor skills. While combining codeine with alcohol may give you more of an instant high than taking each drug separately, it can also [...]
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 getting cut off on the road. If you do not learn how to control your anger, it is a possibility this can enable drug addiction. [...]
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 to never give up on the ones you lost as everyone has the potential to get better. You may remember all of the times that [...]
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 ignore. It is important to learn the history of amphetamines so that you are aware of people’s perceptions of the drug when it was first [...]
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 to a harmful substance. It is important to remember that despite your personality, addiction is not a permanent state of being and you can always [...]
Police Officers and Substance Abuse
Being a police officer is one of the most emotionally and physically draining professions. They have to deal with disorderly conduct, fatal car accidents, and shootings. Police officers need to understand how important it is not to deal with the stress through substance abuse but through talking out your problems with a professional to find it easier to function at [...]
Is Addiction a Moral Failure?
From the outside, people see those who have an addiction as a moral failure for making bad choices and not better ones. While drug use may at first be voluntary, it does not mean that it ends up that way. It is important that we look at addiction as a brain disease instead of a moral failure so those drug [...]
What Do Television Shows Get Wrong About Mental Illness?
Television shows were made for the purpose of entertainment. Creating a mental illness storyline will bring intense drama into the show when presenting its challenges. The problem is that people take these dramatic shows seriously and think what they see on screen is what mental illness really is. It is important to know that mental illness has an unrealistic depiction [...]