Enterprise News of Massachusetts has conducted a two part series on heroin addiction in Eastern Massachusetts, first published in 2007, to make people aware of the dangers of heroin and prescription painkiller abuse in young people – not just a big city problem.
The series is entitled Wasted Youth – speaking out on behalf of Eastern Massachusetts, a region and its people that provide us with insight,...
A distinction is made between addictions that involve process, the performance of certain acts, such as gaming, and addictions that involve the ingestion of substances, such as petrol fumes, or drugs.
Although people with drug addiction have the added burden of damage caused by ingestion of the toxic substance, the pattern and progress of both drug and process addiction are essentially similar.
In the example of...
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Of the many symptoms of drug abuse are reported eye conditions – the eye’s of drug users are often red, perhaps glassy, fixed or staring, sometimes the eyes are watery in appearance.
In 2005 an article appeared in Eye magazine about Class A drug effects on drug users eyes. The article notes that in Britain in the year 2000/1 there were 118,500 patients were in treatment with drug abuse agencies or...
Opium poppy
In discussing the signs of opium addiction, we first have to discuss what opium is. Opium is said to be a kind of sedative that is sourced from the seeds of a flower called opium poppy. This end product of the poppy seed becomes a key ingredient for many opiates like codeine, papaverine, morphine and noscapine, which are then altered chemically to get heroin. Opiate addiction has been a source of concern...
Oxycontin addiction is likely to occur with abuse of the prescription drug Oxycontin, a brand name for the Schedule II restricted drug oxycodone, which has effects similar to morphine. Morphine is named after Morpheus, the Greek God of Sleep and Dreaming. Nothing is more seductive to those in chronic emotional or physical pain, than to slowly subside, into the welcoming arms of Morpheus. Taking slow release...
