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How To Stop Smoking Cannabis in 7 Steps
Many people who smoke cannabis, otherwise known as marijuana or pot, become addicted to it without even realizing that they have an addiction. In fact, if a long time user of cannabis is asked if they are addicted, they will typically say that they are not, because...
Teen Drug Abuse Treatment
When drug use begins in early adolescence there is increased risk to become addicted. This is partly due to the immaturity of the young brain and its impulse control ability. Prevent Teen Drug Abuse with Prevention Treatment of Teenage Drug Abuse can include...
Myth: Smoking Marijuana Harms Only the Smokers
Reality: Marijuana Use Harms Nonusers (Continued from Page 4) We need to put to rest the thought that there is such a thing as a lone drug user, a person whose habits affect only himself or herself. Drug use, including marijuana use, is not a victimless crime. Some...
Myth: Marijuana Is Harmless
Reality: Marijuana Is Dangerous to the User (Continued from Page 3) Use of marijuana has adverse health, safety, social, academic, economic, and behavioral consequences; and children are the most vulnerable to its damaging effects. Marijuana is the most widely used...
Myth: Legalization of Marijuana in Other Countries Has Been a Success
Reality: Liberalization Often Results in Higher Use of Dangerous Drugs (Continued from Page 2) Over the past decade, drug policy in some foreign countries, particularly those in Europe, has gone through some dramatic changes toward greater liberalization with failed...
Myth: Marijuana Is Medicine
Reality: Smoked Marijuana Is Not Medicine (Continued from Page 1) The scientific and medical communities have determined that smoked marijuana is a health danger, not a cure. There is no medical evidence that smoking marijuana helps patients. In fact, the Food and...
Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us
DEA Head Examines Harmful Misconceptions About Pot Karen Tandy, the administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, examined the harm done to the youth of America by myths surrounding marijuana use in an article for the March 2005 issues of Police Chief...
Synthetic Marijuana – K2 & Spice
You may not have realized it, but synthetic marijuana is being sold in gas stations and convenience stores. Under the names "K-2" and "Spice," this synthetic drug aims at being a legal way to get a herbal high. Many states have banned the drugs though because they are...
What Parents Can Do to Prevent DXM Abuse, Street names Dex, Robo, Skittles, Triple C, Tussin
DXM Addiction: Signs, Dangers and Treatment An abuse of cough syrup that contains codeine and DXM (Dextromethorphan) is dangerous. Codeine, an opiate, and DXM, a psychoactive drug, are two very addictive substances. Cough syrup is a preferred substance to abuse for...
Amphetamine Abuse
Chronic Amphetamine Abuse May Result in Long-Term Changes in Brain Activity Recent animal studies seem to corroborate findings that rehabilitation and addiction specialists have acknowledged for years; chronic amphetamine use disrupts the emotional and cognitive...