drug use

Potentially Dangerous Drug 'Molly' Gains Popularity

Potentially dangerous drug 'Molly' gains popularity

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The drug's effects last approximately three to six hours, although it is not uncommon for users to take a second dose of the drug as the effects of the first dose begin to fade. It is commonly taken in combination with other drugs. MDMA acts by …
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Rugby and League: Rugby codes tackle drug use

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Write About Your View on Drug Abuse Among Teenager?

Question by mic_yellow: write about your view on drug abuse among teenager?

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Answer by ashicare4u
Many teenagers will have some experience with alcohol and other drugs. In fact, drug use among adolescents is much more common than parents realize. About one in six persons between the ages of 13 to 17 years old has used marijuana. Nearly two-thirds of all American young people try an illegal drug before they finish high school. Alcohol and nicotine (in cigarettes) are the most commonly used drugs by teenagers. Teenagers who smoke and drink during their early teens are the ones most likely to begin to use other illegal drugs later.

Movies: 'Ernest & Celestine'

Movies: 'Ernest & Celestine'

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The beauty of this movie is in how we identify with Northup and come to understand the awful effects his loss of liberty had not just on him, but on the moral relativists and outright sadists who ran the machinery of slavery. It's a challenging …
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Fall risks, Part I – Assessing hazards, preventing falls

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Substance Abuse Counselors only…Help With Treatment Plan Assignment.?

Question by ebizartistry: Substance Abuse Counselors only…Help with treatment plan assignment.?
Below is a fictional character in for treatment. I am to compare my treatment plan with those of other substance abuse counselors. Please provide a general treatment plan that you would develop based on the below information.

I Need Some Help on a Subject About Drug Uses?

Question by yvonne76scott: i need some help on a subject about drug uses?
my sisters huspand has a drug abuse problem. she left him and she is a christian woman. he is seeing a doctor with a contract that he is only using the drugs that the doctor gives him. well when they test him at the doctors office, there is another drug in his system. he says that it is caused by the chemicals in his body changes the drugs. i was wondering is that true, does your body change the type of drug in your system. he also has liver problems, hep b and bipolar. can anyone help or send me to an area that can help him out.
when i said my sister is a christian woman i mean she wants to stay right with her wedding promises, she doesn’t know if she should go back cause of her religion or just to stay away

What’s the Connection Between Drug Use and HiV? Will Addiction Treatment Lessen the Spreading of HIV and AIDS?

Question by annaliese r: What’s the connection between drug use and HiV? Will addiction treatment lessen the spreading of HIV and AIDS?
I do know that they’re somehow interrelated. I was just curious as to how addiction treatment could possibly lessen the spreading of the aforementioned diseases.

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Answer by alicia c
Drug addiction treatment would be able to reduce the spread of AIDS/HIV because drugs users are more likely to get affected by such diseases. Treating drug addicts will definitely help. Studies have shown that those who inject drugs who do not let themselves get subjected to treatment are six times more liekly to get infected with HIV or AIDS, as opposed to those who let themselves get treated.