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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.
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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,
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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.
Human cravings have been based primarily on the concept of classical conditioning,
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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.
However, these raw materials can be deadly when combined because with these, you can actually synthesize crystal meth, or methamphetamine. As a highly addicting drug,
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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,
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