Posts Tagged ‘drug addicts’
B.C. Struggles to Treat Most Severe Mentally Ill Drug Addicts
B.C. struggles to treat most severe mentally ill drug addicts
Vancouver police and the region’s health authorities are desperately trying to figure out how to help the most vulnerable of mentally ill drug addicts. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
BC Struggles to Treat Severely Mentally Ill Drug Addicts – CBC.ca
BC struggles to treat severely mentally ill drug addicts – CBC.ca
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BC struggles to treat severely mentally ill drug addicts
CBC.ca Combine untreated addiction with homelessness and physical health problems, and you get a health emergency. Vancouver police and the region's health authorities are desperately trying to figure out how to help the most vulnerable of mentally ill drug … |
A Pill to Cure Addiction? – Wall Street Journal
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A Pill to Cure Addiction?
Wall Street Journal Years of heavy drinking or drug use remodels the circuitry in and around a part of the brain known as the amygdala where these feelings of anxiety are triggered, says George Koob, who pioneered study of this dark side of addiction. The brain's stress … |
Why do doctors abuse prescription drugs? ‘Self-medication’ is key reason – YottaFire
B.C. Struggles With How to Treat the Most Severe of Mentally Ill Drug Addicts
B.C. struggles with how to treat the most severe of mentally ill drug addicts
Such are the hallucinations and paranoia felt by those with a stimulant drug addiction. Sometimes the substance abuse is so severe it causes neurological damage and psychosis becomes a chronic condition. Combine untreated addiction with homelessness and physical health problems, and you get a health emergency. Vancouver police and the region's health authorities are desperately trying to figure … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Troubled launch of 'Obamacare' tops health news for 2013
As 2013 nears to a close, the year's top health news story — the fumbled debut of the Affordable Care Act, often dubbed Obamacare — continues to grab headlines. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Legend Grant Fuhr Visits Abbotsford
Legend Grant Fuhr visits Abbotsford
Fuhr, 51, enjoyed a 19-year NHL career with 403 victories, and also was on two Canada Cup-winning teams. Jim Jamieson: You spent five years as a goaltender coach in Phoenix, ending in … GF: Sure, I think individual statistics are looked at more now …
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Drugs and driving – a deadly combination
Young drivers between 16 and 24 lead the way in fatalities that involved alcohol and/or drugs. According to statistics from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 27.6 per cent of fatalities among this age group were impaired by alcohol. Compare this …
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A misguided attack on safe injection sites
The first government bill of this session of Parliament aims to create new laws about sites where drug addicts are legally able to use drugs under medical supervision. Unfortunately, instead of offering an evidence-based … Not only would the bill …
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Madison Treatment Center Announces Program Aimed at Supporting Individuals …
Madison Treatment Center Announces Program Aimed at Supporting Individuals …
A Madison treatment center is launching a program in support of individuals that are seeking help for their substance abuse problems through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. According to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, …
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Equal Money System and Drug Addiction – Dare to have compassion – dare to understand and consider drug addicts as your equal – dare to support a solution to drug addiction by ending the appeal of d…
Why Is It Illogical to Argue That Marijuana Should Be Legal Because Alcohol Is More Harmful, Yet Legal?
Question by Anonymous Anonymous: Why is it illogical to argue that marijuana should be legal because alcohol is more harmful, yet legal?
Is it not reasonable to expect the legal substances to be safer than the illegal ones? Preventing potential harm to oneself/others is the basis for outlawing substances in the first place, right?
Please only answer my question, no ramblings on the topic in general.
Best answer:
Answer by tomusiaka
You should not assume that a substance is less harmful just because it’s legal. There are many legal drugs in pharmacy that are much more harmful to you than marijuana and some other drugs that are illegal. Also, glues and other chemicals that can make you high are legal but they are very harmful to your body.