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...

Digital Drugs – A Gateway to Substance Abuse?

An article in BBC News in 2010 raises the question of whether or not digital drugs can lead to substance abuse. the article refers to schoolchildren using binaural tone downloads on their i-pods and experiencing “high” effects. It is of concern that the producers of these media items also appear to promote a range of “legal” psychoactive substances – aimed at the teen...

Teen Risk Taking and Drug Use, Ontario

Teen risk taking is a normal developmental stage – challenging rules, finding adventure outside of the home, taking off into new and unknown territory is an indicator of developing independence, autonomy and freewill. Sometimes teen risk taking is a response to a sense of feeling entrapped by, enclosed and controlled by the “envelope” of life, sometimes a result of feelings of isolation and...

Addiction – Karma and Consequences

The negative karma of addiction and its consequences involves much suffering. Karma in the Indian culture means quite literally – action. Every action plays its part in an ongoing cycle of causes and effects. The law of karma says that for every action that we take – there will be an effect. Therefore we need to take care in what we do because consequences will follow.  The natural law follows cycles and...

Why do Drop Out Kids do Drugs?

State schooling is very much an institution where normative “middle class” and “upwardly mobile” values are taught – some say “inflicted” on the students. Around 12 years of early development is taken up with schooling on a daily basis. If a child has a problem at school it can affect their sense of self esteem and become a source of worry and distress. Children drop out...