Prescription drugs are sometimes necessary, even for your teen. Certain medications, however, can be abused, and if your teen is taking any of them, you need to be aware of the possibility. Pain medications, ADHD drugs, sedatives and others are subject to abuse and many are habit forming. If your teen overuses his pres
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It might seem like having multiple sexual partners would put you at risk for developing a sex addiction, and maybe it does, but interesting recent research says that it ups your chances for being a drug or alcohol addict. Just how this connection works is not perfectly clear, but the data show that having multiple part
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Teens who have had prescriptions for anti-anxiety medication or sleep medication are much more likely to eventually abuse these drugs, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.
The Michigan researchers discovered that teenagers who received prescriptions for sleep or anxiety medications were 10 times
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Recent research findings indicate that young adults often initiate synthetic marijuana use out of curiosity regarding this substance’s mind-altering effects.
Synthetic marijuana is one of the most common names for a group of artificially produced substances that access the brain through the same chemical pathways
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Yes, you can be addicted to social media. Do you feel antsy when you can’t connect and check your status updates or followers? Do you feel phantom vibrations from your phone and check it constantly for updates? Do you lose yourself for hours on social media sites and wonder where the time went? Do you try to cut back
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According to the CDC, smoking causes of 480,000 deaths in the United States each year. This is ultimately due to nicotine addiction, and it’s why reducing the numbers of smokers by helping them combat their addiction is essential. There have been many approaches suggested to accomplish this goal, and a recent study h
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In a recent episode of NBC’s hit show Chicago Fire, paramedics are called out in a violent snowstorm to attend to two teens under the influence of drugs and in peril. When they arrive at the scene, they find a severely frostbitten male who believes he’s covered in bugs and is tearing at his skin. He then informs th
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Opioid use disorder is the diagnosis doctors in the U.S. use to identify people affected by opioid addiction or dysfunctional opioid abuse. Some people have problems related to the use/abuse of an opioid medication, while others have problems related to the use/abuse of an illegal opioid drug. In a study published in l
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Going away to college is technically about getting an education, but in reality its biggest significance is in terms of independence. Where young people once lived under their parents’ roofs and adhered to the comparatively strict schedules of high school, college allows a taste of independence, more opportunities to
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You’ve made the decision to get sober. You’ve done what you had to do to get through detoxification and you have taken recovery seriously. You go to meetings, share your experience, strength and hope with others. You ask for help. You don’t drink or drug no matter what.
But you still have the urge to use. How
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