All About Alcohol
February 29, 2008
The costs of heavy drinking do not only amount to the few bucks lost in the purchase of alcoholic drinks. It can cost you, your education, your job, your family or even your life. This is because persistent alcohol drinkers often display impaired performance of tasks because of hangovers and alcohol withdrawal distress. Read more
Avoiding Anxiety Attacks
February 29, 2008
Most people think that they can escape anxiety attacks by resorting to substance abuse. As an emotional state, an anxious person is caught in the web of feeling dread, apprehension, or fear. Although drugs, alcohol and other addictive substances can ease out anxiety temporarily, a person who develops addiction to these substances will somehow increase his or her chances of experiencing anxiety again, because of withdrawal syndromes associated with any drugs. Read more
How To Be Saved From That Crave
February 29, 2008
Have you ever felt the extreme need for something that you do not presently have? Craving could be considered a human instinct, as it occurs when something we love to consume or drink has been deprived to us abruptly. Read more
Myths on Meth Addiction
February 29, 2008
What do you get when you combine iodine, hydrogen peroxide, cold medicine and batteries? Indeed, there is no myth that these items are harmless individually. Read more
Get the Facts about Crack
February 29, 2008
As a plant-derived chemical alkaloid known as benzoylmethylecgonine (methylbenzoylepgonine), cocaine is sold in the streets with several names. Whether it’s called “crack”, “coke,” “C,” “snow,” “blow,” “toot,” “leaf,” “flake,” “freeze,” “happy dust,” “Peruvian lady,” or “white girl”, cocaine is considered as a deadly and highly addictive narcotic substance. Frequent users of cocaine report that they feel as sudden rush of self-confidence and supercharged energy, when they either inject or snort this substance. Read more
