Inhalants

Inhalants. Teenagers intentionally inhale the vapors of common household products such as hair spray, shoe polish and glue each year. The health effects can include brain and neural damage, convulsions, deafness, impaired vision, depressed motor skills and death. The social effects, surveys show, include behavioral problems, other drug use and delinquent behavior.

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The Day I quit

The Day I quit smoking for real. There was a beautiful girl who lived in my apartment building at 4000 Tunlaw Road on the first floor next to the elevator in an apartment. My apartment was on the top floor. She was stunning, and the first day I saw her coming back from the Vietnamese grocery in our building I was stunned and she said Hello to me. I was speechless. …

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Addicts NOT

Addicts NOT Anonymous. Addicts Not Anonymous is the premier non-anonymous online community of drug users, abusers, addicts and alcoholics. We can help an addict like only another addict can. We know how to get and stay clean. We’ve been there and done that. I know I’ve been there. I was addicted to heroin for almost twenty years. Not to mention all the other drugs, …

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Personal Alcohol

Personal Alcohol Recovery Stories.. Visitors share their experience strength and hope with stories of their person journey in recovery. Buddy T. is in recovery from the experience of living with an alcoholic. Because he is a member of a support group that stresses the importance of anonymity at the public level, he does not use his photograph or his real name on the web site. …

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cocaine haul

A feature film about an Ecuadorean fisherman who finds a cocaine haul worth a fortune reflects the real-life and growing influence of the illegal drugs trade in the country. Ecuador film shows growing reach of drugs trade By Irene Caselli Quito. It is dawn and several fishermen are on a beach, ready to start work. As they push a boat into the water, they come across a box with tightly sealed packets full of a

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Articles

wonder drug

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The Lycaeum

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Behavioral Health

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Alta Mira

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Drug Path

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National Inhalant Prevention

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Jack F.

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gas on a low flame

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Marie

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Slang

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William K., MD

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Alcohol is

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Womens Spirituality

Womens Spirituality, You are not alone, anymore. Karen Casey, Ph.D., a Naples, FL resident since 1991, published Each Day a New Beginning, her first book, in 1982. This daily meditation book for women in recovery has sold more than 3 million copies. The 25-year Anniversary edition of Each Day a New Beginning was released in August, 2006. It was closely followed by The Promise of a New Day, in 1983, …

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teenage brains

Why I’ve come to consider again the potential problems of cannabis. I enjoyed this drug for 44 years, but I was an adult when I started and back then high-strength varieties weren’t widely available. New research has found that adolescents who are regular users of cannabis are at risk of permanent damage to their intelligence. Reports suggesting that cannabis has a deleterious effect on intelligence, attention

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Jean G.

Jean G. – DOB: 1/21/59. I was into self-abuse more than drug abuse, which is the same thing I guess. I was born in Lynnwood, California. I am the second child and I have two brothers and a sister. My father is a nuclear engineer and also an active alcoholic, doesn’t use while he works, and my mother has an eating disorder problem and weighs about 400 pounds. And I grew up pretty much in a . . . I felt …

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