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Deep Thoughts about the Drug War

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | By the Daily Irrelevant

[ Quote: ] As anyone who has tried to quit smoking knows, dependence is hardest to overcome during difficult or stressful times. That must be why, when the government helps drug abusers quit, they arrest them and take away their job, possessions, and...

Study: Drug War Encourages Illicit Drug Use

Saturday, July 04, 2009 | By TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime

A sensible policy of drug regulation would treat drug use and abuse as a medical issue rather than burdening the criminal justice system with endless arrests, prosecutions, and incarcerations for conduct that primarily hurts those who voluntary engage in...

Drug referral website

Monday, July 23, 2007 | By Health and Wealth

There are many causes of drug addiction. Some of them are actually family related problem like lacked of attention from their parent, trying to prove their worth and etc. Peer pressure is also one of the causes. So it is very important that your child is...

Alcohol and Drug addictions problems on the rise?

Thursday, March 29, 2007 | By Celebrity Scoop

It seems the that the more you listen to the news, particularly celebrity related news, the more you hear about people with drug and alcohol addiction problems. Just how many stars have we heard about just this year alone who have had blowouts and...

U.N. Summit Opens on Global Drug Policy : Wrong Approach

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | By TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime

The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) opened its Summit on Global Drug Policy today at which they are expected to approve another decade of the War on Drugs. Human Rights Watch explains why the U.N. approach should be rejected. On March 11-20, 2009...

Recent Drug Statistics on Dependence

Friday, May 23, 2008 | By Brain Blogger

If you’re interested in drug treatment or social policy, here’s a helpful resource and recent statistics regarding drug dependence. It is a report that tells us how many people become dependent, and are still dependent, two years after their...

The Various Harmful Effects of Drugs

Monday, July 06, 2009 | By Health Tips & Guides

A lot of drugs are being consumed by several people for the satisfying effects that they are supposed to produce. This use of drugs, leads to severe social and economical problems like drug addiction or drug obsession. There is a very long list of these...

Are generic drugs really equivalent to brand name drugs?

Friday, August 28, 2009 | By Medicine and Technology by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH

The topic of generics vs. branded drugs is an old debate that still remains somewhat controversial (depending on who you're speaking to). According to the FDA, "An estimated 44 percent of all prescriptions in the United States are filled with generic...

Tihar addicts to get oral pills to overcome drug dependence

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | By Latest News

New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) Hundreds of drug addicts in Tihar Jail will soon get ‘kick-inducing’ pharmaceutical tablets from doctors to overcome their drug dependence as part of a reformation programme being initiated by a UN agency. In a first...

Prosecuting Neo-Natal Drug Use: A Public Health Issue

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | By Feministe

Theresa Lee Hernandez is being prosecuted for murder — for being a drug addict and giving birth to a stillborn baby. The District Attorney is arguing that Hernandez’s neo-natal methamphetamine use amounts to murdering her child. Obviously no...

Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy--Drug Reclassification Should Follow

Tuesday, August 01, 2006 | By The Scientific Activist

Yesterday, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee released a report entitled Drug Classification: Making a Hash of It?, which challenges the logic behind current drug classifications in the UK, especially when tied to legal penalities. The...

Narcotic Sensitivity Among Mental Illness

Friday, February 06, 2009 | By Psych Central News

Narcotics have an irreversible effect on the brains of people already suffering from mental illness, finds a Montreal researcher. Dr. Stéphane Potvin of the Université de Montréal discovered some 33 to 50 percent of psychiatric patients...

Taking Back Your Life

Sunday, September 02, 2007 | By Susan's Spa

Drug dependency is something that impacts people from all walks of life. Doctors, lawyers, stock brokers, teachers, mothers, fathers and children. Many drug addicts begin their addiction through the use of pain killers. Some of these drugs are highly...

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Saturday, November 10, 2007 | By My Views On The Middle East........... - Al Bawaba

Each year, alcoholism and drug addiction affects more than million Americans, their families, and friends. The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence says about 18 million Americans abuse alcohol on a regular basis As alcoholism and drug...

Why Generic Drugs Cost Less

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | By Johns Hopkins Health Alerts

Between 2005 and 2010, brand-name drugs with a market share of about $100 billion will lose their patent protection. Taking advantage of these generics could save you up to $5,000 a year in out-of-pocket expenses. Here's what you should know … Once...

Drug marketing techniques may be risking patient safety

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 | By Science Codex

With new drugs being reviewed by regulatory agencies and then released onto the market faster than ever before, patients' safety is being compromised, warns a study published on bmj.com today. Dr David Kao from the University of Colorado Health Sciences...

Crude Oil Dependency by James Laughton

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | By Neatorama

In his photo series Crude Oil Dependency (2007), English Photographer James Laughton likened our oil habit as if it were a drug that both saves our lives and destroy them at the same time: A very clinical look at our relationship to crude oil. It has...

"Rehnquist FBI File Sheds New Light on Confirmation Battles, Drug Dependence"

Wednesday, January 03, 2007 | By How Appealing

"Rehnquist FBI File Sheds New Light on Confirmation Battles, Drug Dependence": Legal Times has just posted online an article (free access) by Tony Mauro that begins, "The late Chief Justice William Rehnquists Senate confirmation battles in 1971 and 1986...

PTSD Associated With Substance Abuse

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 | By Psych Central News

A new study of individuals seeking treatment for substance abuse found that from one-third to one-half of those seeking treatment also have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Researchers found that individuals with a history of PTSD were more often...

Drug Free America Poll- Drug Use Is Victimless Crime

Saturday, March 15, 2008 | By I Was The State

The Drug Free America Foundation is a non profit group that advocates for the War on Drugs. I actually support this group financially because they are a recipient of large annual grants from the federal government. It's not bad enough the feds arrest and...

Reimportation issue makes a comeback in Senate

Friday, May 04, 2007 | By FierceBiotech

The U.S. Senate easily passed a bill allowing for drug reimports. Supporters harshly criticized drug makers for pushing the world's highest prices in the United States while critics fell back on their position that regulators couldn't guarantee the...

The Pending PET

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 | By After cancer, now what

My annual PET scan is scheduled for August 11th, that is assuming that the radioactive drugs necessary to do the test are available. Yes, you read that right. According to an article in the New York Times this week due to the closure of two nuclear...

The New Weight Loss Wonder Drug

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 | By Self-Proclaimed Supermom

Have you guys heard about this new FDA approved diet pill called Alli?  It is supposed to break down the fat in your food and come out the other end with a vengeance.  The packaging is appealing, the diet plan looks good, but the side effects...

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