Increased Heroin Abuse Amongst Adolescents and Teenagers Is a Growing Concern
For the last few years, law enforcement officials and drug addiction treatment professionals have recognized an alarming trend. Although heroin addiction and heroin use has declined overall, there has been an unprecedented hike in the level of heroin use and heroin addiction amongst adolescents and teenagers.
A recent study has been carried out in order to trace a few particular trends that are possibly responsible for the increased heroin use amongst… Continue reading
Crack Abuse: Drug Use and Abuse Story-Books on Drug Addiction
Brian Irons wrote the book, I Did Not Know. Brian’s reason for writing the I Did Not Know story is to give people who use and abuse Chemical Controlled Substances a bird’s eye view of drug’s power. The I Did Not Know book explains why Brian now uses a wheelchair.
Chemical Controlled Substances were on earth before you and I was born. Many people began using and abusing drugs in the… Continue reading
Cocaine Abuse: Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Crack In America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in its historical context–as the latest in a long line of demonized drugs–and it examines the crack scare as a… Continue reading
Meth Abuse: How to Spot Crystal Meth Abuse in Teenagers
Crystal meth abuse used to be concentrated in women, usually in their late 20s or older because the drug purportedly triggers weight loss. Today, though, younger individuals are also abusing the street drug, and the abuse doesn’t just include women. Males too are now susceptible to crystal meth abuse.
Derived from methamphetamine, crystal meth is a street drug that now causes a lot of parents great unease. They now have to live by… Continue reading
Cocaine (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)
Fruit Palace
Charles Nicholl is on a quest for “The Great Cocaine Story.” The time is the early eighties and the place…Colombia. The story actually begins twelve years earlier in the tiny, scruffy seaport town of Santa Marta, described by some as “a victim of its privileged geographic location.” “The town had the feel of a tropical smugglers’ den. It was a rakish, seedy, avaricious little place, but somehow exhilarating in the way it lived… Continue reading
Drug Abuse: I’m Not Sure What to Do. PLEASE Help…?
Question by Shan: I’m not sure what to do. PLEASE help…?
guys, I’ve grown up in an abusive house for 14 years of my life, going on 15. it’s gotten harder to survive and i’m really sick of not being able to fight back. If i talk/scream back at her she gets worse… and i’ve never fought back because i was afraid that would get worse too. The hardest thing… Continue reading