People today are often depressed, and see depression as being a medical condition that must be treated with drugs or therapy so as to recreate feelings of optimism and happiness.
Depression tends to make people inward lookng, focused on their gloom, a condition that they want to “snap out of” and get back to normal living.
Depressed people often have an idea of what is making them depressed –...
People who have an addiction to opiates such as heroin or oxycodone may be offered methadone on a drug maintenance program – are methadone programs worth the risk?
In 2006, opioid drugs accounted for over one half of all drug poisoning deaths.
The number of drug poisoning deaths involving methadone increased almost seven fold between 1999 and 2006 – an increase in reported deaths from 790 to 5,420,...
The push continues for medical marijuana to be used in the treatment of pain and for the relief of other disorders. Concerns arise that using medical marijuana causes short term memory loss.
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Although attention is focused upon marijuana and memory loss, in fact the use of any drug causes some level of impairment to learning and memory.
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New warnings have been made about statins, with regard...
Most people intuitively agree with the view of WADA – the World Anti-Doping Agency that a total ban on the use of performance enhancers in sport is necessary to protect the health of athletes and to ensure fair play.
For many years, there has been a lobby that promotes drug use in sport, on the basis that the currently enforced “no drugs” policy does not protect the health of athletes, and does not...
As Google counts the cost of it’s involvement in the advertising on internet of illicit prescription drug sites, Canada shares the flack from a United Nations report that condemns use of internet as a means of accessing purchasers of illicit prescription drugs, calling upon Canada, Mexico and the USA collectively to do more to prevent illicit prescription drug sales via internet.
The International Narcotics...
