Category: Substance abuse and addictions

by WebMD

When you use street or club drugs, you’re taking a lot of risks. The drugs are dangerous, and usually there’s no way to know how strong they are or what else may be in them. It’s even more unsafe to use them along with other substances like alcohol and marijuana.

by New Life Exchange

I destroy homes, tear families apart, take your children, and that’s just the start. I’m more costly than diamonds, more costly than gold, the sorrow I bring is a sight to behold. And if you need me, I’m easily found. I live all around you, in schools and in towns. I live with the rich, I live with the poor, I live down the street, and maybe next door.

by New Life Exchange

The power of drug addiction is strong and in this world it will continue to be a major problem, but drugs are no match for the presence and power of God. For God is able to utterly crush and destroy the power of any and all addictions.

by CBS
October 3, 2019

A new report from the Mayo Clinic finds that whatever these e-cigarette users inhaled burned their lungs with chemicals as toxic as an industrial accident.

by Beth Mole
July 17, 2019

Between 2006 and 2012, opioid drug makers and distributors flooded the country with 76 billion pills of oxycodone and hydrocodone – highly addictive opioid pain medications that sparked the epidemic of abuse and overdoses that killed nearly 100,000 people in that time period.

by Drug-free World

The best way to convey the truth about drugs is through the words of those who have “been there.” By telling their stories, they can pass on what they have learned so others avoid going down the same path.

by Drug-free World

Some consider kratom just as dangerous as heroin and meth. But what is it?

by notodrugs

Vaping – the inhaling of aerosol through devices- is intended to solve old problems, but is creating new ones. The aerosol contains fine particles with varying amounts of toxic chemicals.

by drugabuse.com

Fifty times stronger than heroin, the synthetic opioid fentanyl is flooding the drug market – and heightening the danger of overdose. In search of cheaper mixes and stronger highs, dealers now lace heroin and cocaine with this potent drug.

by drugfreeworld.org

Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful. The drug quickly breaks down the immune system, finally leaving one sickly, extremely thin and bony, and, ultimately, dead.