Posts Tagged ‘legal highs’
Psychology – Drug Addiction
Psychology – Drug Addiction – This is my video presentation of ‘Drug Addiction’ for my AP Psychology class, hope you enjoy. Oh and the random freak out when there was a pile of Ice Kubes …
Drugs minister to appeal to Chinese for help in stopping spread of legal highs
More than 280 new synthetic substances not covered by the existing drug laws have been identified by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Many use chemical formula to … The Liberal Democrat minister said there was emerging …
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MDs facing 'substantial' abuse from patients seeking prescription painkillers …
Family doctors are experiencing “substantial” abuse by patients seeking powerful narcotic painkillers and other controlled drugs, new Canadian research shows. Overall, about half of family physicians surveyed during a continuing medical education …
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Treatment Center Finder Expands Their Addiction Hotline
Treatment Center Finder Expands Their Addiction Hotline
The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows an average increase of 10% in drug and alcohol abuse across all ages and addiction types. Addictions to drugs or alcohol was stable from 2002 until 2006 according to NSDUH but has since showed …
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Amendment would crack down on street sales of opiate treatment drug
State senators Thursday proposed legislation intended to crack down on the amount of the opiate addiction treatment drug buprenorphine that is being sold on the street. A four-page amendment to a major bill the Senate Judiciary Committee is crafting …
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Legal high drug deaths soar in UK
Experts who compile the annual report of the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths based at St George's, University of London, say the number of deaths in which legal highs such as Meow, Meow and Benzo Fury, have been directly implicated have …
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Chevy Chase, Jon Lovitz at Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic
Chevy Chase, Jon Lovitz at Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic – In a charity event, celebs lined up to help raise donations that already have helped to build The Drug Abuse Foundation of Palm Beach County.
Deaths from legal highs soar 800% as experts warn those taking them: ''You're …
The mum, who launched drug charity the Angelus Foundation in the wake of the tragedy, added: “Young people purchase these substances not believing for a minute they could be harmed by them.” Professor Fabrizio Schifano, of the National Programme on …
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Holder: Restore voting rights for ex-felons
The bill would lower the federal mandatory minimum sentences for certain nonviolent drug crimes from 20, 10 and five years to 10, five and two years, allow certain offenders to qualify for reduced sentences, and make the law reducing the disparity in …
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Beneficiaries Seek Legal Highs
Beneficiaries seek legal highs
But generally, Western Bay drug addicts are turning to synthetic highs in a bid to pass workplace drug tests, Bay Counselling and Therapy Service counsellor Rachel Hamilton said. Work and Income figures released under the Official Information Act show …
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'Addiction is more powerful than anyone can imagine'
But an addiction counsellor who is running a specific programme designed for family and friends of people who use and abuse alcohol, drugs and gambling says it offers hope. The course is just as applicable to those who work or intend to work with …
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dna exclusive: Powai locals join hands to fight drug menace
The residents also decided to form a support group that will reach the drug addict in the society and his/her family and be the first counsellor. "There will be a support group to reach out to drug addict and his/her family as well as a support group …
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How Would You Feel if You Were Trying to Stop Taking Drugs & Someone Labeled & Called You as a “Drug Addict”
Question by JEN A: How would you feel if you were trying to stop taking drugs & someone labeled & called you as a “drug addict”
How do you think a person might react, a person suffering from years of addiction, family chaos & emotional/verbal abuse, if the person they claimed they loved called them a “drug addict”. Also, do you think that if a person sitting in the middle of a movie pulls out a pill container & starts popping pills that this may be red flag to a SERIOUS ADDICTION – hence the name calling?
About Mental Illness and Drug Abuse?
Question by : About mental illness and drug abuse?
I am doing a project in health about the relationship between mental illness and drug abuse. One of the questions is ” which drugs have been proven to be a risk for people with mental illness” . I couldn’t really find anything and I desperately need to finish it off soon.
Best answer:
Answer by Rioet Sursa
Well the drug thats at risk to people with mental illness is cannabis because it c’auses psycosis and s’hizophrenia
Answer by Joy
The answer is all of them!
Then maybe say cannabis in any form, ecstasy, all legal highs, barbiturates, all uppers and downers, heroin, cocaine etc. You may want to say also that people with a risk of mental illness due to genetics or high stress levels are more at risk of developing a mental illness fast and finally that the addition of alcohol to any of these substances increases the risk.