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...

Cocaine Addiction Recovery

People looking for cocaine addiction recovery, may be directed to a therapeutic community. Therapeutic communities have emerged out of mainstream treatments for cocaine addiction because there are said to be no specific maintenance drugs to help with cocaine recovery, as there are for narcotics. It is very easy to become confused as to what is on offer in these communities. It is sometimes stated that they use a...

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...

When the Drugs Don’t Work

A recent article in Reuters press raises the alarm – in a world that has become increasingly reliant upon drugs – what happens and what do we do when the drugs don’t work. In the fight against pain and disease, we have become reliant on drugs – modern medicine and hospital care are dependent upon antibiotics to keep sick people free of bacterial infections whilst being treated for other...