A Tennessee judge was having sex and buying pills during courtroom breaks from convicts he had previously sentenced, read an article from the Associated Press last week. Published the same day, an article from Press-Citizen revealed how a former Iowa City nurse was charged with stealing her patient’s medications from the hospital’s drug dispensing machine. Read More →

Thousands of drugs are abused every day. Each day sees new designer drugs created and sold, as well as curious users experimenting with drugs for the first time.   The rate of drug abuse is constantly changing; the numbers are never static. However, one can be fairly confident that each of the drugs listed below fully deserve to be on the list, even though their specific ranking may fluctuate. Read More →

You’re stuck with it. Your brain has changed. Addictive substances have re-structured the inner workings of your mind, and the squishy stuff beneath that head of hair (or lack thereof) has taken on a new challenge: the challenge of addiction—and all that comes with it.   Read More →

You’ll probably never see someone try to smoke a big mac, or inject ice cream into their forearm. But recent neurological studies argue foods similar to America’s iconic burger, and the dessert we all scream for are as addictive as drugs that end up in syringes and pipes.   Read More →

Beautiful, sunny, 85-degree Orlando here we come--with Disney World at the top of our list. At least--that's typically what one's plans would be when traveling to Orlando. But last week, we would have found more than just families on vacation gathering at the Walt Disney World Swan Resort. Last week, Orlando also became ground zero for the prescription drug problem.  Read More →

“Hey. Did you hear what I did at the party last weekend? It was crazy awesome.” In society today, teens view drinking as normal and cool. They will boast about the crazy things they do while drunk. But while they view drinking as cool, new drinkers haven’t learned to like the bitter taste of alcohol. So what do they drink instead? Alcopops. Read More →

A woman in Panama City, FL. claims that she violently attacked a monster in her living room—but the “monster” turned out to be her mother.  In Indianapolis, a 29-year-old woman leads squad cars on a wild chase before crashing and being removed from her car. She was discovered “incoherent, laughing uncontrollably and speaking nonsense.” A Florida man is subdued by police, but not before he rips a radar unit out of the squad car with his teeth. No, these stories aren’t from Stephen King novels or The Onion news network—these are real incidents. And what did they all have in common—Bath Salts.   Yes, you didn’t read that wrong—bath salts are the newest rage to hit the drug market. Read More →

Innovative psychiatry studies performed between 1966 and 1970 suggested careful LSD use could be a unique way to help alcoholics sober up. According to the findings, one dose of the powerful drug could help alcoholics give up their drinking obsession for as long as six months.   The counter-intuitive method recommended 40 years ago by Krebs and Johansen, a pair of American scientists, seems suspect. But a re-examination of the study seems to view LSD as a Read More →

If you’ve been listening to the news last Christmas, you've probably heard about Zohydro--the new proposed painkiller coming to market soon. And later this year, you might be hearing a lot more about it. Zohydro has sent little ripples of shock through addiction experts and those who care about the rise of prescription addiction.  So what’s the commotion all about? And why is there such a big protest against it? Read More →

Off the Shelves OxyContin, or Oxy, just came off the shelves—in Canada that is. So, it must be serious, right? In efforts to fight problems with increasing addiction, some provinces in Canada no longer publically fund OxyContin. Some of the provinces even chose not to fund the Read More →