What is Drunkorexia?
As a slang, non-medical term, Drunkorexia refers to someone who restricts food calories to make room for alcoholic drink calories. (Drunk-drinking alcohol, (ano)rexia-restricting food/calories)
Love and Sex Addiction Treatment
Believe it or not love and sex can be addictive. Love and sex can also be destructive. Well, at least socially, love and sex can be destructive. Love and sex can become compulsive just like substance abuse
Women and Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a drug that can cause severe problems in the life of anyone who uses it and that includes women. And unfortunately for women, the rates of methamphetamine use are much higher than for other classes of drugs.
Addiction and Sex Workers
Unfortunately addiction can lead to sex working or in other words prostitution, hooking, stripping etc. Some sex workers use drugs to numb themselves in order to continue working. Others turn to sex working as a last resort to score drug money for an ongoing drug addiction
The War on Drugs: Did We Win or Lose?
In 1971, Richard Nixon declared war on the drug problem in the United States. The goal was to cut the supply of drugs coming into the country by increasing federal policing efforts and thus significantly decrease the rate of drug addiction in the US. Clearly, it hasn’t been a success.
The Reports are In: Buprenorphine Treatment for Addicted Mom Reduces Fetal Distress
But a new study reports that the use of buprenorphine by opiate-addicted pregnant women may limit the risks of neonate distress, according to National Institute on Drug Abuse. Though it is not perfect, it may be a slightly better solution than methadone according to the study results.
The FDA Loses Fight Over New Cigarette Labels
One of the tobacco industry’s giants, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, did not want to see their bottom line affected by graphic images and took the FDA to court. Recently, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of R.J. Reynolds, upholding a decision handed down by a federal district court earlier in the year.
12-Steps Series, Part I: What Alcoholics Anonymous Has to Offer
In “the rooms,” as 12-step meetings are often referred to by participants, people have the opportunity to process through their past relationship with drugs and alcohol and learn how to make better choices in the future. How does it work? How do groups like Alcoholics Anonymous help you to fight back against the temptation to relapse?
Can Your Immune System Block Opiate Addiction?
Maybe not on its own, but if researchers and the latest studies into the effects of a drug called (+)-naloxone (read: plus nah-locks-own) are correct, then there may be a way to treat pain and block the addiction often triggered by traditional opiate painkillers.
“Shake and Bake” Crystal Meth Method Causing a Rash of Burn Victims
The newest method of production of crystal meth is known on the street as “shake and bake,” where highly unstable ingredients are mixed inside an everyday 2-liter plastic bottle.