"I left a 20 sack of coke in the forest behind my house as a peace offering with the bats and when I went back to hunt for dinner, the bag was gone but the bloody wankers left a pile of bat droppings in my dime bag. That was when I decided that those ***** were not worth my apology. So I brought the dime bag of coke ... Read More
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The Short List of Drugs Ozzy Osbourne Didn’t Use
The Terrifying Path from an Opioid Prescription to Heroin Addiction
How do prescription opioids lead to heroin use? The answer to that question is one that every American can benefit from knowing, in light of distressingly high rates of addiction to painkillers in this country. Heroin is a highly addictive drug that's made from morphine, which is a natural substance that's taken ... Read More
3 Truths About Imodium Misuse That Are Hard to Stomach
Imodium is a drug that's not well understood, despite being commonly used to ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn's disease, and a whole host of other conditions that affect the digestive tract and cause diarrhea. People have come up with ways to use Imodium other than as directed by the drug ... Read More
How Long Does It Take to Become Addicted to Weed?
According to a study published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2018, an estimated 43.5 million Americans aged 12 and over, or about 16 percent of the population, used marijuana in the year prior. While most people can stop using weed relatively easily, this isn't the case for ... Read More
3 Substitute Addictions That Anyone in Recovery Needs to Know About
There's a phenomenon that occurs often in the process of addiction recovery. A person, in their efforts to get sober, finds that another behavior makes it easier to resist the substance or behavior they were previously addicted to. As their addiction wanes, the new behavior becomes more of a necessary part of their ... Read More
Dangers of Vaping – The Shocking Number of Options That Every Parent Should Know About
The popularity of vaping is well-known. A deviation of the original electronic cigarettes, vapes are now ubiquitous— with an estimated 10.8 million Americans using electronic cigarettes of some sort, over half of them under the age of 35. Just as parents for hundreds of years have had to contend with their children ... Read More
Xanax Addiction
Xanax, which is a brand-name version of alprazolam, reduces anxiety, making it useful for treating generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. Although Xanax is a legitimate medication, it causes certain changes in the brain that make some individuals more likely to become addicted. Once a Xanax addiction ... Read More
David Bowie on Cocaine – Disturbing Recollections of What Drugs Did to Him
David Bowie was a visionary whose innovative thought and musical creativity were beyond imitation. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, he changed the music industry many times and altered his identity even more frequently. But stories about David Bowie's life must be told through the lens of his struggles with drug ... Read More