We’re in the final stretch of 2019, and for many people, now is the time to reflect on the year and begin making plans for the next. Each year, we all make a list of New Year’s Resolutions for how we will improve our lives in the coming year, listing everything from hitting the gym […]
When a mother-to-be drinks, her baby drinks. Alcohol in the mother’s blood is passed directly to the fetus through the umbilical cord. At present, physicians cannot determine the precise moment when a specific biological system such as the nervous system is most affected by alcohol consumption. That’s why the medical profession recommends no alcohol consumption […]
Substance abuse disorders are quiet, careful killers. They are disorders that force our way of living to center solely around the addictive substance and nothing else. In the United States, 20.2 million adults aged 18 or older suffered from a substance abuse disorder in 2014, accounting for billions of dollars exacted from health care, loss […]
Law enforcement agencies have cracked down on the illegal designer drug trade and have carried out more than 150 arrest warrants and nearly 375 search warrants in 35 U.S. states and five countries including Canada, Panama, Barbados and Australia. In just three days, more than 770 pounds of synthetic drugs...
The 2013 World Drug Report by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that from 2010 to 2011 worldwide seizures of methamphetamine (meth) by authorities rose from 51 tons to 88 tons, an increase of 73%. Sixty one percent (54 tons) of all seizures were reported by...
In California, a man high on drugs, swam for seven hours in the ocean off the San Diego coast to evade capture and arrest by police. He had been wanted on a felony drug warrant, but after his lengthy time at sea, decided to finally surrender to authorities. Police officers...
Sold with names including “bath salts”, “spice”, and meow-meow”, new synthetic designer drugs evade existing laws drugs and offer life threatening consequences for users. There are now 251 dangerous psychoactive drugs, which is a 50% increase over the last three years. Young people are lured into thinking the drugs pose...
The Mayo Clinic has reported that nearly 70% of Americans are taking at least one prescription drug and more than 50% are on at least two prescriptions. Twenty percent are on at least five prescription drugs. The study is uncovering important information on how drugs are used in this country....
Two drunk men tried to hold up a gas station, but were foiled by the store clerk. One of the robbers, Jamie Neil, 41, wore a clear, see-through plastic bag over his head when he attempted to hold up and steal from a gas station at St. Austell, Cornwall in...
The ability to “hold your liquor” may cause you a serious alcohol dependency later on in life. Researchers from Arizona State University and Yale University found that drinkers who did not seem to suffer from the short term effects of drinking such as feeling inebriated or experiencing a hangover the...
According to a recent study, four states—Florida, Texas, Kansas and Oregon have minority success rates significantly positive for Latinos in relation to white clients for completing drug abuse treatment programs. A University of Iowa study, which was published in the May Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal, found that were wide...
The number of students taking prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin, is on the rise at New York colleges. New York Senator Chuck Schumer is asking for new regulations that require students to have a health evaluation by a school clinic or outside health facility if they will be...
Wisconsin elementary school teacher, Maria Caya, vomited and passed out while on a field trip with her school’s fourth grade students. According to WISC TV, Caya, who teaches at Washington Elementary School in Janesville, was one of several teachers watching the students on their trip to a bowling alley. She...
