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Question by shining girl: Is alcohol or weed worse for you?
I’ve always wondered if one is worse than the other for your health and if so why?

Best answer:

Answer by D
booze kills your liver weed just makes you high

Answer by Steven G
Alcohol can cause liver failure, heart problems, and if drink too much can kill you. Marijuana, or weed is a gateway drug. Once your body gets use to the high, it needs more, then you could go to other drugs that could kill you. But, I would say Alcohol is worse, even though drinking moderately can actually help prevent heart disease.

Brain scans of porn addicts: what's wrong with this picture?
A doctor looks at a heroin addict's brain scans. New research shows men who say they are addicted to porn … develop changes in the same area – the reward centre – that changes in drug addicts. … This can damage the dopamine reward system. In porn …
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Question by Wide Awake: What are some shock tactic aimed at scaring teenagers away from alcohol/drugs?
and do they work?

If you have any experience of a teen taking drugs but stopped before it got out of hand or vice versa. I’d appreciate it if you shared it here.

Thank you.

Best answer:

Answer by Charles Veidt
One of my local schools actually staged a student’s death. They intentionally let rumors swirl through the school that said student had died the previous night in a drunk-driving accident. Then at the rally at the end of the day, they revealed that the student wasn’t dead, but that he easily could’ve have been because drunk driving could easily result in quick fatalities like that.

While it’s true that a drunk driver has a high probability of being involved in an accident, the stunt didn’t go over very well at the school. The students felt abused and betrayed and the school never repeated any similar stunts, to the best of my knowledge.    Read more...

Question by Laura: drs opinion of difference between physical and psychological dependence?

Best answer:

Answer by Honor
Physical dependence is where your body actually requires whatever drug to function properly whereas psychological dependence is where your body actually doesn’t need it to function but your brain has convinced itself it does.

This difference is important especially in terms of detox of drug addicts because if there is a physical addiction, death can occur if a user tries to quit “cold turkey” (giving his or her body no time to adjust functioning without the drug). Heroin is a common example of a drug that is both physically and psychologically addicting.

Jenelle Evans on Overcoming Heroin Addiction: I Quit Cold Turkey
For someone so young, there's no doubt that Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans has way more problems than Jay Z (dude only has 99 — child's play compared to Jenelley). And we're not just talking about homegirl's strange obsession with Alfredo sauce. Jenelle …
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Giving Your Money to Drug Addicts
I have simply come to the sad conclusion that those most likely to use the phrase are those most likely to neither give, teach, or fish. …. To pray, to admonish, to enter into a relationship of love, to embrace, to hold, to plead, to offer help, to …
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Heroin overdose deaths spiking in area
Heroin has become one of the most popular drugs of abuse in Licking County and the number of deaths caused by heroin overdoses has spiked this year compared to the last two, according to information provided by the Licking County Coroner's Office.
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Vancouver police urge drug addicts to use Insite following deaths
Vancouver police are warning local drug addicts to use the supervised injection facility Insite after two people died after injecting heroin without anyone to assist them. The warning, issued in an advisory on Monday, caught operators of Insite off-guard.
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Breaking Bad Normalizes Meth, Argues Prosecutor
Only drug addicts, cops, and prosecutors would see it as the focus. What's glamorizing about murder? About losing your family? Yourself? Your soul? The question these dramatic pictures put to an audience-a thinking audience, and maybe the problem is …
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Feds charge Allentown men with running sex trafficking ring
Deshawn King, 33, and Daniel Blount, 31, both of Allentown, allegedly recruited and enticed drug-addicted women to perform commercial sex acts at area hotels by promising the women a supply of drugs and heroin, according to a news release from the U.S …
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Ed Sheeran Injured His Hand!! See The Bloody Pics HERE!
Khloe Kardashian is so over Lamar Odom's drug addiction dramz. The reality TV star has stuck by her man and tried to help him with his substance abuse issues with some interventions, but no more! A source revealed: Read more ». [Image via WENN and …
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