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Drug Abuse
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Prescription Addiction
The latest threat in drug abuse may just be lurking somewhere in your medicine cabinet. In the past few years, prescription addiction statistics has surged as compared to use of illegal drugs such as ecstasy or marijuana. In fact, data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2002 revealed that prescription addiction or the non-medical use of prescription drugs is now the second most popular category of drug abuse, after marijuana. The 2004 study even suggested that 1 in every 5 teenagers have taken prescription pain killers in order to get high.
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Hydrocodone Addiction
Hydrocodone addiction is now a growing crisis all around the world. While the truth about illegal drugs such as methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana remain ever famous, it may be surprising for some to know that hydrocodone addiction gently lurks right behind them to be one of the newest and most widely abused addiction drugs. As a matter of fact, it is believed that hydrocodone might be the most abused prescription drug in the United States. The number of people addicted to hydrocodone has quadrupled in the last decade, while the number of patients that needed to be admitted in emergency rooms surged by 500 percent.
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Roxicet Addiction
Roxicet is a pain killer that belongs to the analgesic narcotic class of drugs. It consists of a combination of oxycodone, which is a narcotic opioid and acetaminophen (or paracetamol). It is also known by other brand names such as Percocet, Tylox and Endocet. It is prescribed by doctors to relieve moderate to severely moderate pain. In actuality, acetaminophen is less potent as a pain reliever but its effect is greatly increased when combined with oxycodone.
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Percoset Addiction
Percoset is actually a combination of a narcotic called oxycodone and an acetaminophen. Their combination gives a synergistic, positive effects relieving moderate to severe on pain. The effect and addiction caused by oxycodone is similar to other narcotics (morphine). Other similar brand names include Tylox and Roxicet, and Endocet.
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To What Extent Will Drug Rehab Go?
Let us begin with the definition of drug rehabilitation - Drug rehabilitation or therapy is a procedure. In most instances persons will be admitted into a stay at a medical unit - facility and will go through a succession of examinations, tests, questions, analysis etc., etc. Now although these people undergo a phalanx of questions and tests, in the end, the ultimate aim is to help the patient to purge their bodies of the toxic drugs that at one time impaired their judgment and ability to function appropriately and also to subsequently permit them regain control of their lives, thereby allowing them full realization that toxic drugs are unimportant, unnecessary and bad - harmful.
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GHB- Dangerous When Abused!
Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, known as Ghb, is a drug that is used in the medical field as an anesthetic and to treat a variety of problems such as insomnia, clinical depression, and even narcolepsy.
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Why Would Anyone Lick a Bufo Alvarius Toad?
A discussion about the supposedly hallucinogenic properties of toad venom in ancient and contemporary literature. Is Bufo Alvarius the inspiration for stories about people licking toads?
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Alcohol And Tobacco Make The List In Texas
According to a recent British study published in the March 2007 issue of Lancet magazine, it's been determined that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than illegal drugs such as marijuana or ecstasy.
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Coping Emotionally With Overcoming Addiction
Overcoming addiction, particularly drug addiction (like the one mentioned in the recent HBO documentary Addiction), is perhaps one of the most difficult physical challenges we as humans can surmount.
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