Nutritional Deficiency and Drug Use

The impact of drug use on nutrition is one of the adverse side effects that fails to get a mention in standard drug warning lists. With drugs so widely and commonly used in modern healthcare practice, we have become familiar with the fact that drug use has adverse side effects. We accept that when we use a drug to achieve a primary purpose, such as pain relief, that there is always a number of adverse “side...

The Diversion of Prescription Drugs

Diversion and abuse of prescription drugs is becoming more of a problem as society in general becomes more dependent on drugs. The problem will continue, and intensify the more reliant we become upon the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the practice of modern day medicine. Until authorities re assess and modify their blind acceptance of and financial support for endemic drug use in healthcare, society can expect to...

MDMA, Meth and your Child, in Canada.

A recent posting to MAP, a Media Awareness Project bringing news about drugs, reports an issue of concern to parents of young children about methamphetamine use in the City of Sault Ste Marie in Ontario, Canada. Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant that can lead to addiction, a synthetic drug produced in speed labs, based on pseudoephedrine. One of the many variations of meth drug that there has been is Ecstasy,...

Grow Your Own Drugs

A book by James Wong with the intriguing title “Grow Your Own Drugs” might lead people to think that he offers advice on how to grow bud in your backyard. It is to be hoped that people who get the book to read up about drug cultivation will read enough to become inspired by James Wong’s “take” on plants – to reconsider synthetic drug use - with a view to permanently disposing of...

Marijuana and Schizophrenia

For many years there have been scientific studies that connect marijuana use with the development of schizophrenia. There are two main points of view as regards the onset of schizophrenia, one being the genetic origin, chemical imbalance theories of the medical and psychiatric professions – the other being a social behavioral model by which schizophrenia is induced, in a vulnerable child, by unresolved...