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An overdose occurs when a person uses enough of a drug to produce life-threatening symptoms or death. There are no reports of teens or adults dying from marijuana by itself. However, research does suggest that somewhere between 9% and 30% of recreational marijuana…

Methadone revolutionized the treatment of opioid addiction in the 1960s by providing the first effective, practical, and legal alternative to detoxification. Detoxification is generally inadequate on its own to provide lasting sobriety because most addicts eventually relapse without additional treatment. Medication-assisted treatment with methadone provided the first legal treatment that was effective in reducing relapses. Treatment with methadone also reshaped our understanding of opioid…

Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States and it is known to be green and dried shredded plants called Cannabis sativa also known as a hemp plant (NIDA 2016). The most common user of Marijuana are young adults and adolescents typically in either middle or high school (NIDA 2016). Marijuana is known for many slang terms such as weed, pot, bud, ganja, Mary Jane and can be smoke by rolling it in a cigarette called a joint, smoked through a pipe, bongs, or smoke in a…

Suicide. Just the mentioning of such a word sends shivers down the spines of the listeners. Even though people do not speak about it often, suicide rates seem to be on the rise, and they are doing everything they can to help. Pamela Kulbarsh, a psychiatric nurse with the San Diego County’s Psychiatric Emergency Response Team for over twenty-five years and author of the article “The Epidemiology of Suicide: Who is Most Likely to Take Their Own Life?” considers suicide “the most preventable…

Do you have friends, relatives or close people who had some problems with drugs or alcohol, but no longer do? The Partnership at Drug Free Organization and Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Service conducted a national survey and they found that 23,50 million American adults are overcoming an active involvement in the use and abuse of some substances. Drug abuse is a global problem because this destroys addicts and their environment. For many decades drug abuse were cataloged such as…

A subject that seems to ruffle everyone’s feathers when it is brought up, is the topic of legalization of marijuana. When people hear of marijuana, they automatically think negatively about it, mostly because it is classified as an illegal drug. There has been a long history with marijuana and the “problems” that it has caused over the years. Starting out as an herb, marijuana slowly became classified, along with all the other more dangerous drugs, under the same category as them. But if people…

Introduction Drug addiction has many negative effects on many people. Fortunately, education on the topic is becoming more popular to try to prevent the problem before it happens. There are programs in schools to teach about drugs and their consequences and there are campaigns for people of all ages including advertisements on buses and billboards and commercials on television which depict what can happen due to drug use. Of course, preventative measures will not work one hundred percent of…

Aptiom and Phenytoin may both be anticonvulsants, yet they have many points of contrasting variation which exemplify their individual advantages and disadvantages. For example, they have differing amounts of clinical research, drug therapy regimen variance, and cost differences that make the each drug distinct and highly distinguishable from the other. Phenytoin was first synthesized in 1908 and was approved by the FDA in 1939 (Ogbru, n.d). Since then, it has become one of the most commonly used…

Hardcore drugs such as heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine, were once legal and used for medicinal purposes. However, the side effects and abuse of the drug was the reason to take the drugs off the shelves. People started to use the drug for the wrong reason. For instance, heroin used to be used as children’s cough syrup. The cough medicine became very popular and people would get heroin prescribed to them to use it for recreational purposes. After America and other countries noticed how bad…

promiscuity. Over the years, many fabulous and talented artistes Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Corey Monteith, Heath Ledger, Marilyn Monroe, Brittany Murphy, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Brad Renfro, Kevin Dubrow, Amy Winehouse and many others died of overdose. Currently, the fame, drugs, and money are related. Clearly, substance use disorders aren’t a new problem for society, and it and this doesn’t distinguish between race, nationality, culture, socioeconomic status, gender or age. A…