33 percent of those who receive addiction treatment drop out of the programs.

Currently, nearly 33 percent of those who receive addiction treatment drop out of the progra...

large doses of cannabis actually made pain worse

The pain-relieving attributes of cannabis have long been praised, and several countries have made it available for medicinal purposes. But moderation is the key, according to a study in the journal Anesthesiology.University of California researchers found that limited use of cannabis had the greatest impact on pain in 15 volunteers, while large doses actually made pain worse. The team recruited 15...

anorexia and the highly addictive club-drug ecstasy activate some of the same brain pathways

Scientists from France have found that anorexia and the highly addictive club-drug ecstasy activate some of the same brain pathways, a finding that may help explain the addictive nature of anorexia and other eating disorders, leading to new treatments.Dr. Valerie Compan of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, and colleagues report that both anorexia and ecstasy reduce the drive...

crystal meth was cheap, caused a lot of violence and was "probably the most addictive drug".

Judge Phillips said crystal meth was cheap, caused a lot of violence and was "probably the most addictive drug". "It is very cheap, you can get it not far from here for £20. "That gives a four to five-hour high but the comedown is frightening, with symptoms including paranoia, stroke, heart problems, irritability and self-harm. It can lead to a lot of violence." Crystal meth has often been taken by...

Type of arrest Number of arrests United States

Estimated totals of top seven arrest offenses in the United States, 2005 Total arrests* 14,094,200 Drug abuse violations 1,846,400 Driving under the influence 1,371,900 Simple assaults 1,301,400 Larceny/theft 1,146,700 Disorderly conduct 678,200 Liquor laws 597,800 Drunkenness 556,200 *Arrest totals are based on all reporting agencies and estimates for unreported areas.Source:...

The Internet is creating a new breed of sex addict according to the latest research from the US.

The Internet is creating a new breed of sex addict according to the latest research from the US.At a conference on sexual addiction in California last week, researchers claimed that 15 percent of surfers have visited sex chat rooms or porn sites with almost 9 percent spending more than 11 hours per week surfing for sexually related material.Online porn is no longer the domain of males, researchers...

Crystal meth,

tik, tuk tuk, crystal, straws, globes are all street names for Crystal meth. Tik seems to be the latest version and is unfortunatley now being used by school children. tik, tuk tuk, crystal, straws, globes will keep you awake and make you violent and in South Africa the police are coming down harder on dealers of Tik than on dealers of the likes of heroin, crack cocaine cannabis etc.Crystal meth,...

METH discovered in Middlesborough earlier this year

METH discovered in Middlesborough earlier this year, Karl Sheldon, of the drugs charity Addaction, said: “It is going to have a wide-reaching effect on families and communities because it is easily produced, highly addictive and cheaper than cocaine.” Richard Cazaly, the man named by police as responsible for the stabbing of Abigail Witchalls last year, was a meth user. Meth may not yet be a problem...

300,000 Heroin Addicts

23-35tonnes of heroin smuggled into Britain each year300,000 heroin addicts £15,000 a year needed to fund an addiction £45,000 The cost of the crimes committed each year by a heroin addict 432 The number of crimes committed a year on average by each add...

Drug addicts are being given injections of heroin on the NHS

Drug addicts are being given injections of heroin on the NHS under a government-backed plan to deter them from comitting robbery and theft to fund their habit. Up to 150 addicts at three treatment centres in England will take part in the trial, which until now has been kept secret. The centres will report the results to ministers, police and doctors. The addicts have been chosen because they have...

13 children a day are hospitalised as a result of alcohol misuse

- Alcoholic liver cirrhosis has increased by 95% since 2000, and by 36% over the last two years to 2006 and is still increasing - Overall alcohol related deaths have increased by 18% from 2002-2005 - More people die from alcohol related causes than from breast cancer, cervical cancer and MRSA combined - The 'passive effects' of alcohol misuse are catastrophic - rape, sexual assault, domestic and other...

alcohol dependent patients show altered responses to alcohol related cues

Several studies demonstrated that alcohol dependent patients show altered responses to alcohol related cues. It is assumed that the regular association of these cues with the ingestion of alcohol leads to conditioned reactions, motivating reward or relief craving and instigating drug intake. A group of German investigators has reported on this phenomenon in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics....

Bars and nightclubs, but not liquor stores, are linked with excessive alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking

Bars and nightclubs, but not liquor stores, are linked with excessive alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking in adults who live nearby, according to a new study from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California. "Usually people think that liquor stores define a neighborhood's alcohol consumption, but we didn't find any relationship between them and problem drinking among the...

Bob Johnsons theory works for addictions as well as mental health problems if you read nothing else read this.

Dr Bob Johnson is a consultant psychiatrist based on the Isle of Wight. He has written two books questioning psychiatry’s current focus on medication, and runs the website www.TruthTrustConsent.com.Here, he argues that psychiatry in its current form is not workingBut of course, if you embark on such a radicaldeparture from psychiatric orthodoxy, there’sa price to be paid – in my case, it cost me mypsychiatric...

Possibly the worlds greatest Psychiatrist

What a toxic fiasco – surely at the start of the twenty-first century we can do better than Picchioni and Murray’s review of schizophrenia1. Doubtless their review faithfully reflects current views of psychosis – but what an awesomely impoverished view that is. When the term ‘medical model’ is deployed to abuse psychiatry, then some effort to restore medicine’s good name should at least be attempted....

Nick Baker, 32, was sentenced by Chiba District Court

Nick Baker, 32, was sentenced by Chiba District Court, near Tokyo, on Thursday for violating the narcotic control act and customs act. He was also fined 5 million yen (£25,470), a court official sa...

Juan Carlos Ramírez-Abadía

Juan Carlos Ramírez-Abadía - a 44-year-old Colombian accused by US authorities of ordering hundreds of executions and smuggling billions of dollars worth of cocaine into the US was caug...

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef from Liverpool,

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef from Liverpool, died after packages of cocaine exploded in her stomach during a flight from Cancún, in Mexico, to Birmingh...

The men, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire

arrested three British men who they alleged were planning to set up a cocaine trafficking network between South America and the UK.The men, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire, were reportedly planning to stash the drug in loudspeakers before smuggling it on to planes. They were arrested at a luxury hotel with 1kg of pure cocai...

British citizen named by police as Allan Grinham

British citizen named by police as Allan Grinham was arrested trying to board an Iberia flight to Europe with more than 6kg of cocai...

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student from central London

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student from central London, was arrested as she attempted to board a plane at Rio de Janeiro's international airport with more than 8kg of cocaine worth an estimated £300,0...

Americans rent upwards of 800 million porn videos and DVD's a year compared with 3.6 billion nonporn videos. Nearly one in five rentals is a porn flic

Americans rent upwards of 800 million porn videos and DVD's a year compared with 3.6 billion nonporn videos. Nearly one in five rentals is a porn fli...

Americans rent upwards of 800 million porn videos and DVD's a year compared with 3.6 billion nonporn videos. Nearly one in five rentals is a porn flic

Americans rent upwards of 800 million porn videos and DVD's a year compared with 3.6 billion nonporn videos. Nearly one in five rentals is a porn fli...

Porn Stats

As of July 2003, there were 260 million pages of pornography online, an increase of 1800% since 1998. Porn amounts to about 7% of the 3.3 billion Web pages indexed by Google Internet users who access adult websites spend an average of 73 min. per month there, but that doesn't include time spent on amateur sites Americans rent upwards of 800 million pornographic videos and DVDs a year, compared with...

Porn Plan

• Eliminate all the pornography in your home • Pray for help • Determine how much you can afford to save each day • Pick a reward for yourself after the first 100 days • Make or buy a bank to save your money in • Pay yourself each day that you successfully avoid pornography • If you stumble, give all the money in your bank to your favorite charity • After 100 days of success, reward yourself...

pornography addiction is a secret thing

You may be the only one who knows you are addicted. If you went to a support group for pornography addicts, and your friends found out, or if your spouse found out, they might be very disappointed in you. You might hurt feelings, break hearts. Friends and family probably don't know you're addicted to pornography. They probably think you're a fine, upstanding, loving man. You know what? They're probably...