Drug News You Can Use
Why Can’t Some People Give Up Cocaine?
“Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called ‘scale of craving’, an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse are the factors most commonly involved in people falling back into the habit.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091120000633.htm
Teenagers risk kidney failure in drug craze
“Ketamine, a powerful tranquilliser used on horses, is being taken in growing number by young people in the UK, causing crippling health problems.
Some addicts have needed to have their bladders removed and must now wear catheters. Other users have suffered serious kidney problems, breathing difficulties, addiction, bouts of unconsciousness and trouble with urinating. The drug also involves a heightened risk of heart attack.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/22/teenagers-ketamine-health-risk
Employers Have More Advanced Ways to Drug Test
“One of the definite pros of hair testing is that it is less intrusive on employee privacy. With hair testing you don’t have those issues. It’s really a matter of plucking the hair.”
http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/5728114.php?
Deadlier than Cocaine, Heroin, and the Swine Flu?
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
“Addiction to prescription painkillers — which kill thousands of Americans a year — has become a largely unrecognized epidemic, experts say.
In fact, prescription drugs cause most of the more than 26,000 fatal overdoses each year, says Leonard Paulozzi of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
Heroin Use on the Rise in the Capital Region
Reported by: Cait McVey
“According to St. Peter’s Addiction Recovery Center, or SPARC, the Capital Region has seen a 74 percent increase in heroin use among young adults.”
