A new drug hitting the streets of America has been dubbed the deadliest drug trend since the 1980’s. The attributes of the drug known as W-18 is off the charts. To begin with, it is considered to be 10,000 times more potent...
Choosing treatment for drug abuse prisoners instead of incarcerating them could prove to be beneficial to everyone. Statistically almost one half of all state prisoners abuse drugs and many have an addiction problem. If they are not treated, most of these prisoners...
Most addicts are in denial and don’t believe or will not admit they are addicted to drugs. Even when their addiction creates a problem they will have an excuse to cover-up the truth. By not confronting addiction head-on the addict probably won’t...
Most addicts are ambivalent about recovery. Some are in denial and believe they can stop using whenever they want to. Others really hate the idea of not being able to get high again. Most of these addicts will have to hit rock...
Top Ten Street Drugs Drug addiction is a major problem in the U.S. and many of the drugs used are sold on the street. The drug problem contributes to crime, the destruction of families, physical and mental disease and death. While there...
People take drugs for a variety of reasons and many will start to abuse drugs and become addicted. Some of the risk factors of addiction are the person’s genetics, a family history of drugs, mental health problems like depression and anxiety, a...
Top 10 Most Commonly Abused Drugs Thousands of people are abusing drugs every day in the U.S. They are sold illegally on the street, are purchased with a prescription, or bought legally such as alcohol, tobacco products and in some states, marijuana....
Top 10 Abused Prescription Drugs The National Institute of Drug Abuse statistics report that the U.S. has 5.1 million people abusing painkillers, 2.2 million people taking tranquilizers illegitimately and 1.1 million people taking stimulants needlessly. In addition, approximately 100 people die daily...
