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...

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...

Khat, Meph and Bath Salts

Khat, or Catha Edulis, is shrub native to East Africa and Arabia. The leaves are chewed, or brewed and drunk as a stimulant liquor. The active ingredients of khat are cathine and cathinone, very similar in action to amphetamine drugs. As with coca and opium, in its countries of origin khat has been used for centuries, in natural form by people in local communities as a pick me up, something to relieve tiredness and...

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...

Narcissism and Cocaine Abuse

A1989 study from the University of Iowa, by William R Yates and others finds that cocaine users are more likely than the general population, including alcoholics to have a narcissistic personality type, with around 80% of cocaine users having Cluster B personality disorders that include the hysteric, the narcissistic, anti social and borderline personality types. see article: Since the Iowa study, the use of...