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Alcohol Abuse On The Rise Among Women

Monday, January 31st, 2011

What image do you get of when you think of a woman who suffers from alcoholism, or a woman who drinks heavily? Do you think of a “bag lady” sleeping on skid row? How about a promiscuous woman hanging out in bars? Perhaps a lonely and unhappy woman who does nothing but sit in front [...]

Commonly Abused Prescription Drugs

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Government organizations such as the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) regulate prescription drugs that have potential for substance abuse. The DEA issued an initiative called the Controlled Substances Act, which places all substances into one of five schedules based upon the substances characteristics. These characteristics include the drug’s medicinal value, harmfulness, and potential for substance abuse [...]

Binge Drinking

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Binge drinking is defined by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration to .08 grams percent or about. This normally happens when men consume 5 or more drinks and when women consume 4 or more drinks in about 2 hours. According to [...]

Cough Syrup Abuse

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Cough syrup abuse typically involves taking codeine-promethazine hydrochloride cough syrup and mixing it with soda, alcohol, or candy in a concoction known as ‘syzurp’, ‘syrup’, or ‘purple stuff’. The ingredients in this concoction make it very easy to develop an addiction. Experts are worried about the danger of this syrup being such a highly trendy [...]

Signs and Symptoms of Heroin Addiction

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Heroin has had quite a history in the United States. Heroin was originally developed as an alternative for another drug addiction, morphine abuse, which was quite rampant in the late 1800’s. Heroin was created as a non-addictive morphine substitute by Bayer that was sold over the counter legally. In the early nineties waif like models, [...]

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