Opioids are powerful painkillers, but they're also incredibly addictive, and there's a significant risk of overdose if they're abused. According to the World Health Organization, 39.5 million people were living with drug use disorders in 2021, and prescription opioid abuse accounts for a growing percentage of those ... Read More
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Reasons Why We Turn To Substance Abuse
Many of us know the challenges and struggles that accompany drug and alcohol addiction. Whether it's financial, emotional, psychological or physical, the damage substance abuse can do to our lives can be devastating. No one wants to become an addict, let alone admit that they're well on the road to becoming one or ... Read More
How to Quit Cocaine: 5 Tips From the Experts
Cocaine is classified as a hard drug and is illegal to possess or consume. That has not stopped it from developing a reputation for being safer than drugs like meth and heroin, thanks to its use among investment bankers and rave goers. The reality is that cocaine is as dangerous, and its use can be fatal. Overdose ... Read More
How Common Are Nightmares While Quitting Weed?
Although withdrawal symptoms from cannabis aren't as severe as withdrawal symptoms from quitting opioids or alcohol, they are still unpleasant and disruptive to your health. And, for people who smoke marijuana every day, the withdrawal symptoms can be more pronounced and uncomfortable, including cannabis-related night ... Read More
Can Cocaine Use Age You – and Are Its Effects Reversible?
If drugs make you age faster, as studies have shown, what does it mean when people say cocaine use can age you? While certain drugs are extremely hard on the body, causing it to deteriorate faster, just how and why this occurs isn't always well-known. Cocaine is no different. Its long-term effects and some of its side ... Read More
Long Term Suboxone® Use – What If I’m on Suboxone for the Rest of My Life?
Addiction to opioids and heroin is nothing new, but some of the ways we treat it are. In the past, methadone was the standard medication used to help people abusing opiates stay sober, but this came with significant downsides. Methadone still produces a powerful high, and users began to abuse it in the same way that ... Read More
Toluene & Benzene: The Huffer’s High
What Is Huffing? Inhaling, or huffing, chemicals such as gasoline, paint thinner and adhesives containing toluene and benzene produces a high similar to alcohol intoxication — loss of inhibition, slurred speech, euphoria, dizziness and disorientation. Most inhalants are central nervous system depressants that are ... Read More
What Drugs/Behaviors Cause the Biggest Release of Dopamine in the Brain?
Some people feel exhilarated by driving fast, hang gliding, or bungee jumping, but it seems that what they really enjoy is the dopamine rush that these types of activities can trigger. Of course, simply eating a square of chocolate or kissing your partner can produce sensations caused by a flooding of feel-good ... Read More
