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How families can provide support for home detox from illicit drugs
When a family member has developed a physical dependency on a drug, the withdrawal symptoms can be a difficult period to go through. In some cases, families can play a support role in “home detox”.…
Hallucinations
Hallucinations are ‘tricks’ played on the senses on the body, making them sense things that are not there. While many people associate hallucinations with ‘seeing things’, there are also many other types of hallucination which…
What is Marijuana?
Marijuana - often called pot, grass, reefer, weed, herb, Mary Jane, or MJ - is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of Cannabis Sativa, the hemp plant. Most users…
Teenage Drug Abuse - Effects on schooling
Drugs have no rightful place anywhere in society; however, they have even less of a place in academic environments where teens are living in their most formative years. That the teen drug/alcohol user’s academic performance…
