Experts know there is a significant link between sex work and drug use. Sometimes sex traffickers use drugs to keep young girls under their control or men share drugs with sex workers as a way to enhance their encounters. Depending on the country, approximately 0.1 percent to 7 percent of an area’s population may include […]
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Counterfeit prescription painkillers is a billion dollar business, but a new company is trying to put a stop to dangerous fake pain meds. As prescription painkillers have become big business, counterfeit meds began cropping up by those hoping to cash in. These fakes can be dangerous, though, especially since there’s no way to know just […]
The new film Limitless tells the story of a pill that boosts brainpower, but as addiction experts know, there’s always a downside when it comes to drugs. You may know Bradley Cooper from The Hangover. In his new film, he’s overindulging in a different way, experimenting with an untested pharmaceutical called NZT. Pop this pill […]
The trend of misusing over-the-counter medicines to get high continues, but it can be deadly. It’s a dangerous trend: Individuals (usually young people) have found that they don’t need to score illegal drugs to get high. They can simply misuse over-the-counter medicines for the same purpose. Unfortunately, this can be just as dangerous as using […]
The club drug known as “Special K” is now shown to cause pelvic pain and urinary incontinence as well as the other more well-known dangers. In addition to the well-known dangers of drug use, there are additional side effects that are rarely discovered or talked about. For instance, long-term abuse of the recreational drug ketamine […]
What unique issues need to be dealt with when an individual is battling more than one addiction? The same impulses that can make an individual susceptible to one addiction can make them open to other types of addictions as well. Co-addictions can sometimes also be referred to as co-occurring disorders and the term simply means […]
When it comes to teens and drug or alcohol abuse, prevention is possible, but it costs money and now cuts are putting these programs in danger. State and federal funding have been footing the bill for intervention and prevention programs that help kids stop using drugs or never start in the first place, but budget […]
The annual National Drug Threat Assessment report is out, and Mexico, club drugs and prescription abuse all top the list of concerns. The recently released National Drug Threat Assessment 2010 report is out and it’s pointing the finger at the expanding Mexican drug cartels, growing prescription abuse and Asian ecstasy coming in by way of […]
It’s an unlikely scenario, but dentists are finding themselves on the front lines of the drug war as they encounter patients who show signs of meth abuse. A patient with bad breath or a fear of Novocaine were the biggest worries dentists had in the past. These days they find themselves in the role of […]
Laws that made it harder to obtain pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the production of methamphetamine, were successful in cutting down the number of meth labs nationwide, but now those numbers are on the rise again.