What is crack? The chemical cocaine hydrochloride is commonly known as cocaine. Some users chemically process cocaine in order to remove the hydrochloride. This process is called “freebasing” and makes the drug more potent. “Crack” is a solid form of freebased cocaine. It is called “crack” because it snaps and cracks when heated and smoked. [...]
Methamphetamine: Ruining Lives
Abuse patterns Methamphetamine abuse has three patterns: low intensity, binge, and high intensity. Low-intensity abuse describes a user who is not psychologically addicted to the drug but uses methamphetamine on a casual basis by swallowing or snorting it. Binge and high-intensity abusers are psychologically addicted and prefer to smoke or inject methamphetamine to achieve a [...]
OxyContin: The Biggest Drug Addiction Problem in North America
OxyContin has become the biggest drug addiction problem in North America. And even though there are thousands of lawsuits against the manufacture it continues to be prescribed by most doctors. This drug turns family men and women who have never had addiction problems into crazed addicts. OxyContin has destroyed and killed many young people who [...]
Heroin: AKA “Dead on Arrival”
Heroin: Another Name for Death Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. Heroin is a highly addictive and rapidly acting opiate. It’s known as: diamorphine, diacetylmorphine, dope, black tar, dust, H, junk, horse, scag or smack. It is made from the drug morphine, [...]
MDMA: Laced With Meth?
MDMA – Ecstasy – users may encounter problems similar to those experienced by amphetamine and cocaine users, including addiction. In addition to its “rewarding” effects, MDMA’s psychological effects can include confusion, depression, sleep problems, anxiety, and paranoia during, and sometimes weeks after, taking the drug. Physical effects can include muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, [...]
Information For Drug Addiction Recovery
Detoxification or withdrawal is the first step on the road back to sanity. It usually involves medical care and supervision. This is a very crucial step, the brain has been affected by the drugs and is not balanced at this point, and rational thinking does not come easily for the addict in this stage of [...]
What Is Drug Addiction?
If a person takes a drug often enough, the brain will make changes so that it can handle all the extra chemicals that are being put into it. In an attempt to adjust, the brain tells the neurotransmitters to slow down the release of certain chemicals in the pleasure circuit. As a result, normal levels [...]
Drug Rehabilitation: The Bio-Physical Method
We all have natural chemicals that the body produces to create the feeling of happiness in the brain. Heavy drugs like cocaine, meth and heroin change these normal processes of happiness and once gone, heavy depression sets in. This causes the user to use again and again, but the user needs to take more of [...]
Other Rehab Methods
Drug Rehab through the 12 Steps The 12 steps drug rehab program has slowly evolved into Narcotics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous from its original name, Alcoholics Anonymous. The founders of Alcoholics Anonymous were two alcoholics who got together in an effort to handle their addiction in 1934. This program has helped thousands of people beat [...]