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...

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...