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You’re Not Alone: Family Support for Drug Addiction in the UK
Seeing a loved one struggle with drug addiction can be incredibly difficult and isolating. It’s important to remember you’re not on your own. Many families in the UK face this challenge, and there's a range of support available to help you cope and navigate this tough time.
What on Earth Is Captagon…?
Fenethylline is the actual chemical name , and it was initially engineered in the early 60s in Germany. Now its marketed as an amphetamine under the name Captagon and it is used both on the battlefield and the streets of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) to destroy lives, both young and old.
Binging on Benzos
Benzodiazepines, also known as “benzos”, are man made brain and central nervous system depressants used to treat anxiety, nervousness and other ailments.
Lyrica Abuse in The United Arab Emirates
After my fourth interview with a University level student in the UAE abusing Lyrica, I began to do my own research. Lyrica is a prescription painkiller with a schedule V classification similar to codeine.
Skating on Ice, But Not on an Ice Rink
The supposed upside to Crystal Methylone (methamphetamine) and why its users blindly rate it, is for its ability to make one feel good. The flip side of the coin is the fact that has one of the most dangerous consequences that one could experience—It attacks the central nervous system and in particular the brain itself.
Pop Culture Power Gone Wrong
How to destroy a generation of future leaders. With the evolution of social media over the past 10 years, messages from pop culture influencers rebound around the world in a matter of seconds.
“If Only it Were Over—but the Only Way Out is Death—I Don’t Want to Die.”
Take a deep breath—I tell it like it is—Jenny J. Jones. The heading above are the words that a heroin addict said to me one Monday when I visited a squat where heroin was the order of the day. The floors were littered with aluminum foil, boxes of matches, petrol lighters, tourniquets, leftover food and rubbish, dirty clothes and sneakers (shoes).
Alcohol… Greeting 2018 with a Hangover?
The Christmas parties are over. The New Years Eve gatherings are rapidly becoming a distant memory. Many hangovers have been had and are now fading. Massive amounts of alcohol have now been consumed throughout the UK, Europe, and the world in the last week.
The Activity With a Payoff—and a Driver Experiences an Unexpected Death
Heroin dealers invariably deal this drug for its monetary payoff. For two of them and four innocent bystanders, the outcome was very different.
Signs of LSD use
Albert Hofmann, a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical, synthesized LSD for the first time in 1938 in Basel, Switzerland. He was looking for a blood stimulant.
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