Drug Proof Kids & Natural Immunity

In ongoing efforts to reduce the increasing levels of drug use in modern society, medical scientists have come with a novel idea. Instead of boosting the natural immunity that people have to drug use when they are happy, fit and healthy, further efforts to curb drug use take the form of an intended vaccination. In the field of cocaine addiction it appears that there are no viable maintenance drugs that can be...

Drug Abuse in Canada

According to a February 2011 article by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, – illicit drug use costs Canadian society around $8,2 billion per year, 60% of illicit drug users are between 15-24 years old and that in high risk groups the average age of first drug use is 11 years old. see article Whilst the RCMP is committed to a strategy of prevention and education, it is also admitted that the drug problem is...

Digital Drugs – A Gateway to Substance Abuse?

An article in BBC News in 2010 raises the question of whether or not digital drugs can lead to substance abuse. the article refers to schoolchildren using binaural tone downloads on their i-pods and experiencing “high” effects. It is of concern that the producers of these media items also appear to promote a range of “legal” psychoactive substances – aimed at the teen...

Drug Use and our Aging Population.

In modern times we are seeing people living for many years longer than they used to do. In former times the average lifespan was shorter, and more people died prematurely from disease and accidental causes. Today with medical support and surgical interventions, people are continuing to survive and live longer. Many people are living into old age, with some form of disability. There are also social problems of...

Drug Use Ontario – Have We Lost the Plot?

CAMH the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada has recently released the results of a 2009 survey, conducted about the population of Ontario, and found that people in Ontario are increasingly using alcohol and marijuana, with an increasing number of the population reporting that they have mental health problems. Cannabis use, for both males and females of all age groups, has risen to 13.3% in 2009, from...