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Images of The Brain on Drugs

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Comparisons of normal brain images and brains that have been affected by alcohol and drugs.

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Prescriptions and the Brain

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Studies have shown that people who take prescriptions for an anxiety disorder don’t get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won’t, benefit from each anti-anxiety prescription they write. You are like a medical experiment or guinea pig.

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Robert Downey Jr and Drug Abuse

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Robert Downey Jr. stated that “You use whatever rationalization you can to justify the fact that you’re not living truthfully,” about substance abuse. “You make this death machine seem glamorous so you can get on to the next moment. But it isn’t glamorous, and it isn’t fun.”

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Beautiful Boy Book About Addiction

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The book, Beautiful Boy, by David Sheff, is a heartbreaking and wrenching story of a father’s journey through his son’s drug addiction. He states that he was addicted to his son’s addiction. Any parent who has had a child abuse drugs will be able to identify with this story.

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Drug Use > Drug Abuse > Drug Addiction

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

There are 3 levels of drug use: drug user, drug abuser, and drug addict.

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Club Drugs Damage The Brain

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

A series of studies at University of Florida over the past five years has shown that using the popular club drug Ecstasy, also called MDMA, and other forms of [tag]methamphetamine[/tag] lead to the same type of brain changes, cell loss and protein fluctuations in the brain that occur after a person endures a sharp blow [...]

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