The Malawi Incident. In 1982, on a trip to Malawi with James, I got into a lot of trouble. We were in pursuit of the best Marijuana the planet offered, Malawi Gold Cob from the town of Ncotakota. Ncotakota is an ancient fishing village on the shores of Lake Malawi, approximately in the middle of that landlocked country. Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyasa) is one of the largest lakes in Africa …
Michelle C. – DOB: 3/11/70; Concord, Massachusetts. The next morning I took about 85 Tylenol, and I knew down deep down inside that I didn’t want to die. The thing was that I just didn’t want to live, and I planned that. I was going to take all this stuff and if I was lucky, I would end up in the hospital, and end up getting help, and if I wasn’t, I’d end up dying. Then I wouldn’t have to deal with …
Addiction by Nora D. Volkow, M.D. Addiction and the Brain’s Pleasure Pathway: Beyond Willpower. Eventually, the drive to seek and use the drug is all that matters, despite devastating consequences. – * Addiction can develop despite a person’s best intentions and in spite of their strength of character. * Repeated drug use disrupts complex but well balanced systems in the human brain. * Many people are
The Voices of Hepatitis. By KAREN BARROW. Michal Czerwonka for The New York Times Will Green contracted hepatitis as a child, but didn’t get a formal diagnosis until he was 30.. One in 20 people will come into contact with the hepatitis virus at some point, but fortunately, only a small percentage develop a lasting case of the disease. Still, millions are chronically infected with the hepatitis …
PAR-People Advocating Recovery is a statewide group of concerned individuals working to eliminate barriers to recovery from addiction. A Kentucky group of concerned individuals working to eliminate barriers to recovery from addiction. Advocacy with Anonymity is a pamphlet copublished by Join Together and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. It …
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FUTURE OPIOIDS – we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head …
Whip-its: The high you can buy at Wal-Mart. While most people use nitrous oxide canisters to make whipped cream, partyers inhale them for a brief, euphoric high. What are nitrous oxide ‘whip-its?’ Demi Moore hospitalization raises awareness of dangerous gas canister inhalant. Demi Moore was hospitalized this week after a scary episode reportedly involving inhalation of nitrous oxide.
Government survey finds that 5 percent of Americans suffer from a ‘serious mental illness’ By David Brown, About 20 percent of American adults suffer some sort of mental illness each year, and about 5 percent experience a serious disorder that disrupts work, family or social life, according to a government report released Thursday. The annual National Survey on Drug Use