Science of Addiction

Science of Addiction – Summary of links to available resources on the National Institute on Drug Abuse web site involving Club Drugs. Throughout much of the last century, scientists studying drug abuse labored in the shadows of powerful myths and misconceptions about the nature of addiction. Today, thanks to science, our views and our responses to drug abuse have changed dramatically. Groundbreaking …

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The Pathway

The Pathway Program is a drug rehabilitation center for youth ages 13-25, with several locations in the greater Phoenix area. Pathway is the top drug and alcohol treatment center for teens and young adults in Arizona, providing the most successful substance abuse treatment programs in the state for over 20 years. We take your family’s recovery as seriously as you do. Our staff will go …

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Protest

Protest Anti-War Movement. Christopher Keeley’s Social Documentary Photography. A protest expresses a strong reaction of events or situations. The term protest usually now implies a reaction against something, while previously it could also mean a reaction for something. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly and forcefully making their opinions heard in an …

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working definition recovery

SAMHSA announces a working definition of “recovery” from mental disorders and substance use disorders. A new working definition of recovery from mental disorders and substance use disorders is being announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The definition is the product of a year-long effort by SAMHSA and a wide range of

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Molly

Molly: Pure, but Not So Simple. By IRINA ALEKSANDER. At a party not long ago in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Kaitlin, a 22-year-old senior at Columbia University, was recalling the first time she was offered a drug called Molly, at the elegant Brooklyn home of a cultural figure she admired. “She was, like, 50, and she had been written about in the Talk of the Town,” said Kaitlin, who was wearing black skinny jeans and a tank top. “This woman was very smart and impressive.”

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Articles

RecoveryView

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Poisonous Spider Bite

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Mitchell S.

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John Bramlett

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Pepe Acuna

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All

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Rolls Royce

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Kings of Dust

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Ex-addict

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sterile syringes

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Club Drugs

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Afghan poppy

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Ecstasy/MDMA

Ecstasy/MDMA is a synthetic drug that has stimulant and psychoactive properties. It is taken orally as a capsule or tablet. colloquially known as ecstasy, often abbreviated “E” or “X”) is an entactogenic drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of drugs. MDMA can induce euphoria, a sense of intimacy with others, and diminished anxiety and depression. Many, particularly in the fields of …

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Three early

Three early traumatic events. Three traumatic events that probably affected my early psychological development and contributed to my becoming a juvenile delinquent occurred while I was in first grade. The combination of these three unfortunate events may also have contributed to the detrimental progression of the disease of addiction at an early age for someone as young as me. My …

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Pascale F.

Pascale F. – DOB: 10/14/57; Paris, France. When I used last week, when I went up there to 14th and W, I looked at the people on the corner, and it was the first time that I really ever looked at them. And those people, they look half dead. I mean it’s really sad. They are really on their way out. I was born in Paris, France. I lived there until I was twelve. I had a wonderful childhood. I’m the only child.

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