Marijuana is a one type of drug it has many negative effects on health. Essential motor skills like alertness, concentration, coordination and reaction time are effected by marijuana. These skills are required for safe driving. Judging distances and react to signals can be made difficult by marijuana use. If any body smokes marijuana, these effects […]
Tag: Drug abuse
Few Facts About Depressants
Depressants are classified mainly into two types. They are: Barbiturates and Benzodiazepines Barbiturates: They have been popularly used in the first half of the 20th century. Symptoms after using these barbiturates include slurred speech, loss of motor coordination. They are naturally used as sleep aids. Depending upon the dosage, for length of the time the […]
Infectious Diseases and Drug Abuse
Drug abuse causes health risks which are sometimes as dangerous as the physiological effects of the drugs themselves. Injecting drug users (IDUs) are at high danger for direct vulnerability to various blood-borne bacterial and viral infections. HIV/AIDS: Injection drug use is the main reason for the cause of AIDS in more than one-third of all […]
Prescription Drug Addiction At Schools
Schools are another place apart from home where teens can access prescription drugs, since some students should take prescribed medications during the school day. Administrators and nurses of school should make sure that only those students with prescriptions should bring medications to campus. In order to make clear about prescription drug abuse among students, school […]
Forbes’ List of Illegal Drug Capitals of America
Espanola is a small city with a population not more than 10,000. But the rate of drug related deaths here is at a record level of 42.5 drug-related deaths per 100,000 people. The same rate when considered national wise accounts to an average of 7.3. There are several such places in America, which can be […]
Athletes and Performance Enhancing Drugs
Before every game athlete drug testing is carried on every athlete who wants to participate or who selected for participating in the games. Athletes are tested whether they use any performance-enhancing drugs for increasing their efficiency. Sometimes, competitors have many questions if any participant wins the game. These tests are practiced for identifying any use […]
Level of Drugs Should Present In The Athlete’s Body
Athlete drug testing is conducted to ensure that no participant should have an artificially induced advantage of chemical substances. Enormous pressure is faced by the athletes to excel in the competition. Some have very strong desire to win more than one gold medal in the games for that he can go for performance-enhancing drugs or […]
Types Of Depression
At this time in US billions of people are suffering with depression. Some it cause for deaths and suicides. Now I share some information about depression and major type’s depressions. In Major depression the episodes can be either single happening or recurring. A single occurring episode will vanish after the treatment has taken effect. For […]