How Often Do Kea Do Drug Testing?
... be allowed to possess small amounts for personal use. It is felt that this would make government control easier and would cut the huge profits made by drug lords. Detoxification may first get addicts off drugs and then improve… Continue reading
AP News in Brief at 5:58 Am EST
... for … Read more on Quincy Herald Whig Alcohol & Drug Rehab Ottawa Launches Program Aimed at Reducing … Drug Addiction Treatment Centers stand upon the foundation of the Twelve Spiritual Principles of recovery, which include Honesty, Hope, Faith,… Continue reading
Ex-Users Help Heroin Addicts Out of Death Spiral
... help heroin addicts out of death spiral “We need to look at what the motive is for someone to make that jump from social recreational drug use to all of a sudden being involved in incredibly dangerous, high-risk use,”… Continue reading
Letters: Key to Drug Prevention Is Support, Early Intervention
Letters: Key to drug prevention is support, early intervention The recent article citing the coroner's information on the heroin epidemic is alarming, and certainly in keeping with what I am seeing in the patients I treat. I am an addictionologist… Continue reading
Dopamine Is a Key Neurotransmitter in the Brain?
... produces an increase in locomotion and an increase in so-called stereotyped behaviour. A behaviour is said to be stereotyped when it is is repeated in an apparently meaningless fashion. Answer by VDopamine is found in the brain already, and… Continue reading
OD vs. Substance Abuse?
... by Gracyn: OD vs. Substance Abuse? Does one overdose qualify as “substance abuse”? Would the hospital see it that way? Would the patient be turned down for ‘treatments’ such as dialysis? Thank you. (I know dialysis isn’t a treatment)… Continue reading