Smoking’s effect on women’s health Smoking isn’t good for anyone, but for women, smoking can be especially dangerous because of the way it affects their reproductive health. Also, women seem…
24 year old Greg Merson went from being a straight-A student in high school to dropping out of the University of Maryland (in 2007) for his addiction to cocaine. Now…
Signs of Codependency Codependency basically means that you make your relationship more important than yourself. One or both of the people are so invested in the relationship that they ignore…
The Addictive Personality The “addictive personality” was something I heard about a lot before I came into recovery. My dad would say things like, “You and I need to be…
You didn’t really think this was all going to blow over now, did you? The SunSentinel is reporting that Delray Beach Vice Mayor Tom Carney has rallied up a team…
Living with chronic pain limits what you can do. Chronic pain can interfere with your ability to work, play with your children, walk or even take care of yourself….
In The News: School Nurse arrested for stealing student’s ADHD medication A Dallas elementary school nurse Rebecca Baily-Long is on paid administrative leave after allegedly stealing prescription ADHD medication from…
Pharmacodynamics is a branch of pharmacology. While pharmacokinetics can be described as what the body does to a drug, pharmacodynamics is what the drug does to the body. It studies…
The first thing you need to know before reading this article is the difference between helping someone and enabling someone. Helping is when you do something for someone that they are…
Pharmacokinetics is a branch of pharmacology that studies the movement of drugs through the system. The acronym ADME is often used in pharmacokinetics to describe the four parts of a…
Parents’ Guide to Drug Abuse: Signs of Addiction Sometimes it can be hard for you as a parent to differentiate between your child’s newly defiant and rebellious behavior (that can…
What is ketamine? Ketamine is a schedule III dissociative anesthetic developed in 1963 to replace PCP and currently used in human anesthesia and veterinary medicine. Ketamine is manufactured as an…