by Valiant | May 29, 2015 | Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse, mental illness and disorders
Sometimes it can be difficult even for trained medical professionals and mental health specialists to distinguish between these two until a thorough and extensive evaluation has been done. If both substance abuse and mental illness are present then specialized...
by Valiant | May 25, 2015 | Drug abuse, Prescription drug abuse
Prescription drug abuse is on the rise, and marketing has to take some of the blame. Every time you turn on the television pharmaceutical companies are advertising new drugs for every condition under the sun. The list of side effects and possible complications with...
by Valiant | May 22, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, Prescription drug abuse
The researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health discovered that the frequency of emergency room visits can be a very strong predictor of prescription drug overdose deaths. The researchers determined that patients who visited the local...
by Valiant | May 18, 2015 | Drug abuse, heroin use
Over the last few years the rate of heroin use has jumped among individuals who abuse opioid pain medications, and the biggest increase was seen with the Caucasian population. A new study that was performed by the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health...
by Valiant | May 15, 2015 | Drug abuse, teen drug use
According to Joseph Palamar, an assistant professor at NYU Langone Medical Center and a researcher who has an affiliation with New York University’s Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, “Nearly one out of 10 teens reported ever using hashish and it was...
