Drug Abuse

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Prescription Drug Abuse Explained: Painkiller Addiction May Stem From How …
Worldwide, an estimated 12 to 21 million people abuse opioids — including prescription pain killers, morphine, and heroin — while in the U.S. alone, 1.9 million people are addicted to prescription pain relievers. Although the seduction of opioids may …
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Sadly, Tech Addicts Have Taken a Page From Drug Abusers
They lie about and cover up their behavior, and they learn to shop in secret (much like alcoholics and drug addicts learn to be secretive about their substance abuse). Digital technology, offering 24/7 access to goods and services, aids and abets them …
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Drug Abuse and Our Biased Compassion
Putting the moral implications of drug addiction and the drug business aside, I am of the belief that drug use should not be criminalized. After all, the individuals afflicted with substance addiction need medical help, not jail. The consent between a …
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Question by LES MiZeRaBLE: drugs……?
what is the difference between drug use and abuse?

Best answer:

Answer by adam H
drug use is when you smoke all your weed with me , drug abuse is when I whip your ass and take the weed ………

Answer by jenn
None.I don’t think.

Understanding Opioid Abuse (2 Letters)
Patients, providers, researchers and advocates need to collaborate to improve the delivery of opioid substitution therapy, the gold standard for treating opioid addiction, which also takes into account co-occurring mental health problems and chronic pain.
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Video aims to thwart drug abuse
“These would include former addicts who share the destruction illegal drug use caused them, loved ones of addicts who share the pain and suffering of substance abuse brought to them and their families and counselors who share what they have …
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Alcohol & Substance Abuse : Mental Side Effects of Methadone – Methadone is a treatment designed to help people with chronic pain relief or with the treatment of narcotic addiction, and the side effects include discomfor…

Catalyst Coalition aims at preventing substance abuse locally
The Catalyst Coalition, a program of the Napa County Office of Education, will continue to support community- and school-based prevention efforts; educate parents, students and teachers about the harms of alcohol and drugs on young people; and advocate …
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Question by risanav: critique my essay please?
For a long time, medicine has helped people look young and be more attractive through plastic surgery, and now people are using medicine to help boost their mental processes. Interest in herbs and drugs which increase awareness and brain power has been around for many years. There are new drugs capable of helping you in the learning and memorization process; these drugs are called smart drugs. Scientists and students alike are taking these drugs to make their brain work better. Some of these “smart drugs” are available only with a prescription because they are designed to help people suffering from senility, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s, but the effects of these drugs on healthy people have become known through experimentation. The current restrictions on smart drugs should not be relaxed because they are relatively new, and much more research is needed on the consequences of using these drugs on healthy brains.
Smart drugs advocates are fast to support its use as boosters for all kinds of functions, this must sound like music in the ears of the consumers, but the disadvantages of the recreational use of these drugs are not discussed enough. Its one thing to say a drug is harmless and effective after using it for six months, but another very different thing is to prove its harmlessness and effectiveness under different conditions and years of use. The problems of side effects, abuse and addiction are rarely talked about, and only the good side of the use of smart drugs is promoted. There are no studies on the long term effects of these drugs when taken by healthy people. The drugs affect the brain, which is kind of important for many people including myself. What is good for someone with a disorder is not necessarily better for someone without the disorder. Since we still don’t know everything about the brain’s complexity and mystery, and anyone willing to experiment with theirs should be very cautious. Cognitive enhancements affect the most complex and important human organ, and the risk for unintended side effects is therefore both high and consequential.
Another problem with smart drugs is that people who use them would want to take pills to succeed in those areas of life in which excellence has until now been achieved only by discipline and the value of effort, achieving excellence by means of drugs looks a lot like cheating. People may say that we have been consuming coffee for decades and we don’t consider that “cheating”. However, contrary to caffeine, these smart drugs are illegal if taken without a prescription.
Using drugs to enhance your intelligence is different than drinking a cup of coffee. Smart drugs have the potential to alter the core of a person’s identity by significantly changing her personality,” says Richard Dees, bioethicist and philosophy professor at the University of Rochester. That might lead to, as he says, “unexpected effects.” The consumption of these drugs is wrong because it is unfair and unnatural. The experiences of people who use smart drug with the world are altered. “One major trouble with biotechical (especially mental) ‘improvers’ is that they produce changes in us by disrupting the normal character of human being-at-work-in-the-world … which, when fine and full, constitutes human flourishing,” Kass wrote in 2003.
“With biotechnical interventions that skip the realm of intelligible meaning, we cannot really own the transformations nor experience them as genuinely ours.” This loss, Kass argues, subtracts from our humanity.
I don’t think I could ever take Ritalin or any class of cognitive enhancing drug unless I was diagnosed with a disorder and I received a prescription from my doctor. I’m too afraid to mess with my brain chemistry. I have always relied on my studying skills and so far I have had success. I have friends who suffer from depression, and I also know people who suffer from ADD so I can see a real use for them. But for healthy people regular exercise, proper nutrition and getting enough sleep are more helpful and much safer than any of these drugs when trying to improve their learning and memorization skills.
Solving puzzles, reading a book, or learning a new language are great ways to challenge our brains. The brain is a muscle and if we don’t use it we’ll lose it. I believe all students have a natural capability to achieve and should stay away from these substances until a long-term study is done proving with scientific evidence that there are no negative effects from the continuous use of smart drugs.
The more we learn about smart drugs, the better. After more research is done and if it is found that indeed healthy people benefit from smart drugs with no negative effects after long term use, and if the undesirable side effects can one day be eliminated, eventually smart drugs may even become available over the counter.
If smart drugs are found to have no negative effects after long term use and it is found that they help people to be more able to solve impending problems, so much the better. If assistance from these substances can help increase the useful human lifespan, the benefits could be huge. In the meantime we need to learn from history and avoid the unnecessary use of these substances.
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Heroin Deaths in Pittsburgh a Crisis
Fentanyl is meant for chronic pain relief and sometimes for anesthesia, so combining both fentanyl and heroin would overload the body system and cause it to falter, leading to death. Williams says he believes this may be a bad … The county examiner …
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CULTURE WARS
ASAM President Stuart Gitlow elaborated, “Addiction is a chronic brain disease that can affect people at any age. In fact, the younger one initiates alcohol or drug use, the greater the likelihood that he or she [will have] addictive disease.” To say …
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Community court would reduce crime, make Surrey safer: NDP
"It deals with prolific offenders who are chronic and back before the courts time and time again because their untreated problem of mental illness or addiction is causing their erratic behaviours," he said. Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts is supportive of …
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Question by ma_audio_tercel: Liberty Mutual Workers Idaho Workers Comp?
My husband was in a terrible accident while working. What I want to know is if anybody has had Dr. Friedman as thier doctor and there experiance as him for their workerscomp doctor. Did you by chance go to the famous Elk Rehabilitation Center what was your outcome? What about your personal dealings with Liberty Mutual thereselves. Does anybody Know Monte Whitter the lawyer for Liberty Mutual. I would like to get peoples real life stories out there. I am starting hear first. If anybody would like to share a personal story with me you can reach me at [email protected]. I am desperate to hear your personal stories. I need to find answers for all people who think workers comp is fair or unfair. I need to know your injury and what happened in turn I will share my families. How many people have been turned away because they were called “drug addicts”
agent 1 have you ever been hurt on the job?
Meaning drug addicts because you were a chronic pain patient.    Read more...