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What Organs Does Alcohol Abuse Damage?

Many people may have found some sort of relief from drinking alcohol after a long day at work to unwind or use it as a...

Does Suboxone Make You Sleepy?

Suboxone is a prescription medication used to treat the symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal. It is made of a combination of buprenorphine and naltrexone –...

Does Crack Cocaine Affect the Lungs?

Cocaine has been a devastatingly addictive drug to users ever since its appearance in the club scenes and discotheques of the 1970s. Perhaps even more...

Why is Meth a Popular Drug in the South?

Illegal drugs are prevalent in almost every area of the world especially the United States of America. You can find marijuana probably in every time...

Was Cocaine Once a Legal Prescription Drug?

Many drugs that currently are illegal and carry criminal penalties began as useful medicinal therapies, such as opiates, cocaine, MDMA, and amphetamines. They were legal...

Which Type of Alcohol is the Most Dangerous?

Alcohol abuse is one of the most serious public health threats that Americans currently face – and it has been a major area of concern...

What Do Barbiturates Feel Like?

Barbiturates are a type of central nervous system depressant that is generally used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, and seizures. This type...

Why Do Opiates Make You Itchy?

Opiate narcotic pain relievers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and codeine can be extremely useful for treating moderate or severe pain. However, there are many downsides...

Do Opiates Make You Sleepy?

Opiates are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy plant. Some prescription opiates are made from the plant directly, and others are...

Is Dilaudid More Powerful Than Percocet?

The National Institute on Drugs (NIH) estimates that over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Chronic pain does not just mean that the pain...

Does Cocaine Burn Your Nose?

Cocaine is a very addictive and illegal central nervous system stimulant drug that is derived from a plant called a coca leaf that is native...

Are COVID-19 Restrictions Closing Drug Rehab Centers?

During these unprecedented troubled times, all we hear is “the new norm” and living life has a whole new meaning. We are in a strange...

Reasons for Choosing Drugs Over Family

Chances are, for most people addicted to drugs, they didn’t even know they were addicted to something until it was too late and until they...

Is Valium Used for Treating Panic Attacks?

Some of us deal with a lot of pressures on a day-to-day basis. From school to work, family or marital problems, the stress of wondering...

Can Naltrexone Get You High?

Naltrexone is a medication used for the treatment of opioid abuse disorders – and in some cases, alcohol abuse disorders. The Food and Drug Administration...

Effects of Snorting Pills on the Nose

Addicts have found multiple ways of using drugs. Drugs can be taken orally, smoked, injected, and sniffed or snorted. Some of these ways are taken...

Dangers of Mixing Buprenorphine and Methadone

A medical doctor will rarely prescribe buprenorphine to be taken at the same time as methadone combining these two medications can be extremely dangerous and...

Can You Get High on Benadryl?

Benadryl is a common, over-the-counter allergy medication – one that can result in mild sedative effects or when taken in larger amounts, result in feelings...