Treatment is taken by the majority of individuals who smoke crack. Abuse and addiction of cocaine is a complex problem and it causes biological changes in the brain, familial, social , environmental factors. So cocaine treatment is complex. These social, psychobiological, and pharmacological aspects of the patients’ drug abuse are needed for cocaine treatment strategies. [...]
July 2nd, 2010
Marijuana’s Effect on Neurotransmitters
Marijuana is a drug; it is green, brown or gray mixture of dried stems, seeds flowers of the hemp plant. Marijuana abuse has impact on body as well as brain. Naturally a chemical is produced by the body that is very similar to THC; these chemicals are called as endogenous cannabinoids or endocannabinod. THC or [...]
June 5th, 2010
Know About Side Effects Of Depressants
Depressants can be used both for medicinal and for illegal usage. The positive effects of depressants with the prescription of the doctor are: They reduces anxiety and stress. They induce sleepiness They relieve aches, pains. To cause the relaxation of the muscles. To lower blood pressure. If they are consumed without the prescription of the [...]
February 2nd, 2010
Statistics Of Prescription Drug Abuse
According to a research updated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, prescription drug abuse is a serious emerging problem in the United States. In 2006, they have found approximately 7.0 million persons used psychotherapeutic drugs non-medically which is 2.8 percent of the U.S. Population. They also found that 5.2 million persons used pain relievers, [...]
October 8th, 2009
How Meth Takes Over An Abused?
Methamphetamine, one of the commonly abused drugs. It is very stimulant and highly addictive compared to many abused drugs. When a person actually starts being abused to these drugs, he doesn’t understand that it is his initial step to drug addiction. Before he understands the fact, he is deeply addicted to the drug. In addition, [...]
April 1st, 2009
Drug Testers – An Issue For Olympic Athletes
The new Olympic rule of drug testing has become a burden to all the Olympic level players. This left them with no good option, other than protest against it. The International Olympic Committee had brought a new anti doping rule into existence. According to it, all athletes can be subjected to drug tests any time [...]
March 26th, 2009
Government To Tighten War At Mexico
Obama seems to have taken the Mexican drug wars more seriously. In order to support the troops that already set into the Southwest borders to fight against drug crimes, his government pledged for more manpower and financial aid. The Obama administration has started planning for sending more federal agents to fight against Mexican drug cartels [...]
March 12th, 2009
How Drugs Help Athletes?
We all know that many athletes use drugs in competitions and end up their career in disaster after proving positive in athlete drug testing. I still don’t get the point how those athletes dare to use drugs to enhance their performance, even though they knew that there will be drug testing conducted in competitions. Perhaps [...]
February 17th, 2008
Marijuana – Most Dangerous Illicit Drug
The selling of Marijuana is illegal in most of the countries. But it is the world’s most often used illegal drug available to people in black markets with different names like Blunt, Grass, Herb, Pot, Reefer, Marijuana, Weed, Ganja, etc. Marijuana is common name of cannabis, and is a dry, shredded green and brown mix [...]
January 26th, 2008
Drug Testing In Schools – Good or Bad
The drug testing is often a controversial issue. There are many number of court cases involved in drug testing. But the usage of drugs among teens and children seems to have increased these days. So, no matter whatever the controversy is, drug testing in schools have to be conducted. However there are two sides over [...]