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Before and After Pictures Reveal The Horror Of Meth And The Shocking Transformation In Faces Of Users Hooked On This Deadly Drug
The photos, that show a shocking Dorian Gray-like deterioration, were compiled from mug shots of drug users that were arrested repeatedly over the years. The continued drug use caused horrific damage to the drug users' skin with sores and scarring - that can be caused...
Synthetic Pot’ Sending Thousands of Young People to ER
TUESDAY Dec. 4, 2012 -- U.S emergency rooms tended to more than 11,400 cases of drug-related health complications specifically linked to the use of synthetic marijuana in 2010, a new government report reveals. Released Tuesday, The DAWN Report from the U.S. Substance...
Krokodil: Is A Designer Drug That Will Eat Your Flesh In Russia And May Be Headed To The States.
It sounds like a direct-to-Netflix horror movie plot — a cheap, addictive drug available in a foreign land, that turns the user's skin a scaly green color. Soon it rots the flesh, causing the user's skin to emulate that of a crocodile, leaving bone and muscle tissue...
Facts about Drug and Alcohol Testing In The Workplace, Texas Laws.
Companies hoping for greater efficiency seek also to cut down the costs associated with abuse Since the 1990s, studies have shown that substance abuse is not only prevalent in the workplace, but that it is extremely costly to employers. About 70 percent of all drug...
Study Finds Big Pharma Pushes Doctors To Overprescribe Drugs Instead Of LifeStyle Changes
Know anyone taking prescription drugs? The odds are enormous you do. And it's likely they are taking drugs they don't need because their doctors are too quick to fall under the influence of Big Pharma's aggressive drug sales reps. Consider these statistics: almost...
Scientists Accurately Predict Age With Saliva DNA Sample; SALIVA AS A PREDICTOR OF AGE
ScienceDaily (June 23, 2011) — Self-conscious about your age? Careful where you spit. UCLA geneticists now can use saliva to reveal how old you are. Promising research now shows that DNA Methylation of human saliva can be utilized to predict a person's age with a...
Adolescent Pot Use Leaves Lasting Mental Deficits; Developing Brain Susceptible to Lasting Damage from Exposure to Marijuana
ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2012) — The persistent, dependent use of marijuana before age 18 has been shown to cause lasting harm to a person's intelligence, attention and memory, according to an international research team. ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2012) — The persistent,...
Never Feel Helpless
Written By Phil Bauer - Parent Advisory Board Member As a parent who has lost a son to medicine abuse, the past couple of weeks have been truly moving. The Partnership at Drugfree.org showed me some of the stories people shared about medicine abuse over this past...
Gilmer ISD warns of new digital drug
By Richard Yeakley ryeakley@news-journal.com A drug-like high could be as close as an app on a teen’s smartphone, and that has some area school officials concerned. An official at Gilmer High School warned parents Friday of the digital-drug craze known as “i-Dosing”...
2C-I or ‘Smiles’: A New Killer Drug That Every Parent Should Know About
Witnesses described the 17-year-old boy as "shaking, growling, foaming at the mouth." According to police reports, Elijah Stai was at a McDonald's with his friend when he began to feel ill. Soon after, he "started to smash his head against the ground" and began acting...