Tiger Moms and Infant Drugs

At the beginning of this year, Amy Chua published a book, the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – a non-fiction autobiography that rigorously exposed a strict and disciplinarian style of parenting, as practiced by Amy Chua on her daughters. The book drew widespread criticism of Amy Chua’s parenting style – some denouncing it as barbaric and cruel. Yet, beneath the surface of a mother – daughter...

The World’s Youngest Drug Users

UNODC reports an estimated 172 -250 million drug users in the world with between 18 and 38 million addicted,in 2009. As drug abuse and dependence increases, so the age at which drugs are first used by children continues to drop. Afghanistan is said to have the lowest ages for children starting drug use in the world. In a 2006 report by the Daily Mail, Britain’s youngest recorded heroin addict was given heroin...

Heavy Metal, Depression and Drugs

A study by researchers from the University of Montreal, published in the 2001 Journal of Youth and Adolescence deals with the subject of heavy metal music, youth depression, drugs and suicide. The study probes the characteristics of youth who prefer heavy metal to other kinds of music, who worship heavy metal music and use this music for vicarious release. Findings were that youth of both sexes who preferred heavy...

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...

Crack Cocaine – Burning our Bridges

The latest news from the USA is that up to 12,000 prisoners may be released from jail, on average three years early, under the Fair Sentencing Act 2010 for crack cocaine offences. The move is said to address the issue of sentencing for crack cocaine offenders being more severe than jail terms imposed on people for cocaine offences. The penalties under the previous law, that was enacted in 1986, imposed high...