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LSD Detection: How Long Does LSD/Acid (Lysergic acid diethylamide) Stay in Your System?
How Long Does LSD (Acid) Stay In Your System? Lysergic acid diethylamide, more commonly known as LSD or acid, is one of the drugs used for its hallucinogenic effects. Statistics from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2017 revealed that 10.60 percent of the...
DUI of Marijuana Less Dangerous than Alcohol
Marijuana legalization continues to make strides. If authorities wish to put reasonable restraints on use, they must put forward factual information, call for more research, and stop dragging their feet on enacting the laws their citizens approve through ballot...
Black Tar Heroin 101: Get to Know the Dangers of Drug Impurities
Ever since the last two major heroin epidemics in the US, heroin has come a long way. Right now, the street names created for heroin are smack, skag, Mexican brown, junk, china white, chiva, and of course, black tar. [toc] Get to Know Black Tar Heroin Black tar...
‘Beautiful Boy’ Has a Dual Diagnosis Problem
Films based on true events, whether personal stories or great historical moments, are nevertheless often factually challenged. Such films—A Beautiful Mind, Hidden Figures, Argo, Lincoln—tend to embroider the facts for dramatic purposes. Beautiful Boy—still out in some...
Ativan vs. Xanax: Uses, Benefits, and Risks
Benzodiazepines are among the most abused prescription medicines in the United States. Government data reports that more than 30 percent of opioid overdoses also include benzodiazepine use. Benzodiazepines (also known as benzos) include common drugs such as...
Klonopin and Xanax: Pros and Cons
Klonopin and Xanax are benzodiazepine medications that treat anxiety and panic disorders. Benzodiazepines (benzos) can be habit-forming and create physical and mental dependency when taken in large doses or for prolonged periods of time. Clonazepam, commonly known by...
Here’s What Happens When You Snort Cocaine
Using cocaine in small amounts – about up to 100 mg – can give feelings of empowerment and euphoria. It also provides an unusual surge of energy and a decreased need for rest and food. There are some people who believe that snorting cocaine can help them do...
Opioids Are Epidemic, but Meth Addiction is on the Rise
Drug dealers don’t belong to the Better Business Bureau, but you’d think they would at least want their customers to live to continue to buy their products. Maybe not. First, opioid drug dealers started supplying their oxycodone-seeking clientele with facsimiles made...
Eight Commonly Abused Drugs: Testing Methods and Timeline
Some drug testing does not test the drug in bodies but instead tests for the existence of metabolites, which are substances produced by metabolism. Studying these metabolic changes can help people determine when users took the drugs. Often, drugs will remain in...
Regulating Smoking and Vaping: A Tale of Two Vices
In 2016 the-US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health. It was intended as akin to an earlier Surgeon General’s 1964 report on Smoking and Health, and included the statement that...