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...

Grow Your Own Drugs

A book by James Wong with the intriguing title “Grow Your Own Drugs” might lead people to think that he offers advice on how to grow bud in your backyard. It is to be hoped that people who get the book to read up about drug cultivation will read enough to become inspired by James Wong’s “take” on plants – to reconsider synthetic drug use - with a view to permanently disposing of...

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...

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...