by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, Prescription drug abuse
According to the study almost half of all the fatal narcotic painkiller overdose cases in the USA involved patients on Medicaid, a government funded health program, and these patients used multiple pharmacies to fill prescriptions. Using more than one pharmacy at the...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Drug abuse, marijuana use
Dabs of concentrated marijuana or the active compound in the drug called THC are used, and these dabs are smoked out of a water pipe to vaporize the substance. A new study shows that this practice can be extremely dangerous, leading to serious burns and other medical...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse
Recent figures and details have caused many to describe the rates as alarmingly high. In the past higher mortality rates among former prisoners was high but no efforts were made to determine why this was the case or to perform an in depth investigation of this. In the...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Drug abuse, medical studies, Prescription drug abuse
Mayo Clinic researchers recently studied the percentage of patients who received an opioid pain medication for the very first time who went on to long term prescriptions, abuse of the medications, or addiction. The answer was an astonishing 25%, or 1 in 4 patients....
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | designer drugs, Drug abuse, Illegal drug production
Some interesting facts and statistics about this drug include: The most common users of LSD are white males between the ages of 18 and 22 years old. This type of substance abuse can have long lasting effects. A single dose can last 12 hours or more, and there have...
