What Is Addiction? and Where Can You Get Help in California?
Question by eros_gary: What is addiction? and where can you get help in California?
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People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences.
The illness becomes harder to treat and the related health problems, such as organ disease, become worse.
Addiction is a chronic, but treatable, brain disorder. People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences. This lack of control is the result of alcohol- or drug-induced changes in the brain. Those changes, in turn, cause behavior changes.
Meth Vaccine Could Reduce Drug Dependency in Addicts
Meth Vaccine Could Reduce Drug Dependency In Addicts
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In the United States, government data estimate that there are currently more than 430,000 users, with more than 41,000 new users this year. And in California, meth accounts for more primary drug abuse treatment admission – 26 percent – than any other …
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Program helps mothers kick addictions, win back children
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Brain Injury and Substance Abuse: The Cross Training Advantage
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Worcester Superior Court
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Stephen McPartlan, 24, of 4 Delaware St., Worcester, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 10 to 11 years in Walpole state prison after pleading guilty to trafficking in cocaine and trafficking in heroin, morphine, or opium. He was sentenced to …
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Anyone Know of Any Evidence of the Particular Effects of Marijuana on Asbergers and Its “symptoms”?
Question by Jeff B: anyone know of any evidence of the particular effects of marijuana on asbergers and its “symptoms”?
I believe myself to have this condition but have never been formally diagnosed. I hate the idea of being medicated, and yet I have always had a very strong inclination towards the effects of marijuana… I dont know for sure why. It seems to help me, and I guess Im looking for some outside reference point to guage this perception, possibly with intention to persue a formal research.
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How Do Drug Highs Differ From Drug to Drug?
Question by blackavaritia: how do drug highs differ from drug to drug?
doin a presentation for school and basically need to know this
how do ‘highs’ differ from drug to drug?
i know marijuana highs are basically a feeling of being calm but party drugs used in raves and so on have a totaly different effect right? anyone care to explain?
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