Posts Tagged ‘drug addicts’
Why Are Drug Addicts Treated Like Criminals, if Addiction Is Literally a Disease.?
Question by ben: Why are drug addicts treated like criminals, if addiction is literally a disease.?
Best answer:
Answer by yogicskier
Because the law in some states is still based on 19th-century thought.
Answer by Pangen
They are not unless they commit a crime. If they do, they go to detox and then to jail. Fact is, they did harm someone, and it doesn’t matter if you are addict or not. Unlike a psychological illness, they are choosing becoming an addict knowingly and taking the risk.
Why Are Benzodiazepines Still Legal?
Question by Dean: Why are benzodiazepines still legal?
All I hear is how physically and psychologically addicting they are,why doesn’t the goverement step in and ban them like everything else. They are one of the most prescribed pharmacuticals yet every time they are mentioned it has to do with withdrawal and dependence. I am prescribed valium so i’m not bad mouthing them, I just want to know why they are still legal, if they are so dangerous.
Best answer:
Answer by Mikey
They are still legal for the same reason that cigarettes are still legal.
MONEY.
Answer by Angie
They are still legal because there are lots of people that need them and are helped by them. You become addicted to them when you use them for reasons other than why you were prescribed them.
'Porn Addicts' Show Same Brain Activity as Alcoholics and Drug Addicts
'Porn addicts' show same brain activity as alcoholics and drug addicts
The area stimulated – the part of the brain involved in processing reward, motivation and pleasure – is the same part that is highly active among drug and alcohol addicts. brain scans showing stimulation levels in porn addicts. Lit-up: The brain scans …
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Brain Blaze: College drug users, arrests at UTD rise as students face …
An estimated 2.9 million people started using illicit drugs in 2012, of which 55 percent were under 18 years of age and more than half of the new users started with marijuana, according to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, or NSDUH, by …
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Law Could Overwhelm Addiction Services
Law could overwhelm addiction services
This April 2, 3013 file photo shows people in the detox waiting room at Haymarket Center in Chicago. The men are … 4 million people with drug and alcohol problems — from homeless drug addicts to working moms who drink too much — suddenly will …
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Krokodil Is Here
Known on the street as “krokodil,” the caustic homemade opiate is made from over-the-counter codeine-based headache pills mixed with iodine, gasoline, paint thinner or alcohol. When it's … Most of them drink and few of them work, the same as in …
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Michael Jackson Verdict and 7 Other Tragic Pop Music Figures
Michael Jackson verdict and 7 other tragic pop music figures
Billie Holiday: The preeminent jazz singer channeled personal demons into recordings of visceral pain and transcendent beauty while battling heroin addiction, which was all too common among jazz musicians of her era. The substance abuse is still a …
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Vigil held for drug addicts, family members
The second round of candles was lit in honor of recovering addicts, during which a recovering addict named Brian told his story of 15 years of drug abuse. The third round of candles was in honor of drug addicts who have passed. Sherwood took the stage …
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25 years of highlights as This Morning celebrates anniversary
There was more controversy in 2008, when troubled pop star Kerry Katona, who had in the past battled with drug addiction was interviewed by Schofield and Fern Britton. Appearing confused and distracted, Katona slurred her words, prompting Britton to …
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Seeking New Methods to Treat Heroin Addiction
Seeking New Methods to Treat Heroin Addiction
Heroin metabolises rapidly. One widely-held theory has been that heroin passes quickly into the brain where it is converted into morphine, and that what users are actually experiencing are the effects of morphine. As it turns out, however, heroin …
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New study: Porn activates the same addiction centers in the brain as alcohol …
Voon scanned the men's brains as they watched erotic imagery and found that they displayed the same addiction responses as those of alcoholics shown ads for booze, or drug abusers shown images of dealers. “We found greater activity in an area of the …
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