July 12th, 2012
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2. Krokodil Heroin’s flesh-rotting deformed child Krokodil is Russian for crocodile; the scaly creatures your skin begins to resemble if you take much of this budget heroin. Sadly, scaly skin is the least of a krokodil user’s worries. Miss the vein once and krokodil forms abscesses in ...
July 12th, 2012
DMT: The Spirit Molecule Review
DMT: The Spirit MoleculeDirected by Mitch Schultz Sitting down to watch the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule, I hadn’t the slightest idea of what I should expect. I’d heard of DMT and Ayahuasca before, and I knew people often drew parallels between these substances and near-death ...
July 11th, 2012
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3. Oxi Brazil’s “drug of death” In the drug world, distribution follows money. Most high-grade South American cocaine gets exported to North America, where it commands a lucrative price. The pure cocaine that stays in South America is rare and expensive. As a result, drug ...
July 10th, 2012
Bryan Lewis Saunders: Art “Under the Influence”
[Editor’s note: This article does not represent or speak for Alltreatment.com or our affiliates. The following post does not reflect the views of Alltreatment.com, and the opinions presented herein are the property of Bryan Lewis Saunders alone.] “For hundreds of years, artists have been ...
July 10th, 2012
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4. Levamisole The de-worming agent your friend is snorting Typically used to chemically de-worm livestock, levamisole can now be found in the noses and bloodstreams of cocaine users across the world. Excessive levamisole ingestion can lead in around 10% of humans to agranulocytosis, a sudden ...
July 10th, 2012
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5. Fentanyl Heroin’s ADHD little brother Let’s go ahead and mix metaphors: fentanyl is heroin on crack. Sound bad? F produces effects like heroin but several hundred times as powerful. Taken carefully, fentanyl is perhaps no worse than morphine– euphoric, relaxing, ...
July 5th, 2012
Contest!
Can you guess the five worst recreational drugs in the world? Prize: Winner to receive a FREE SIGNED COPY of Nick Reding’s Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town from Bloomsbury USA publishing. How it works: Starting Monday, July 8, we will post one article per day counting down ...
July 4th, 2012
Interview with Addiction Novelist Marni Mann
Marni Mann is the author of two novels about drug addiction, Memoirs Aren’t Fairytalesand its sequel Scars from a Memoir. Intrigued by her experiences and motivations for writing these novels, we started a conversation with Marni to learn more. AT: We’re very pleased to be able to speak ...
June 27th, 2012
A Vaccine for Nicotine?
Rodent testing has discovered a vaccine that takes the pleasure out of smoking. We’re wondering: did the lab mice smoke cigarettes, or cigars? Researchers at Cornell College and Scripps Research Institute may have found a way to reduce the addiction resultant from nicotine in tobacco ...
June 22nd, 2012
Dying for Triplicate: An Interview with Todd Zalkins
Many addicts can say they’ve been to hell and back. For Todd Zalkins, it took seventeen years, four types of painkillers, and a doctor describing his case as “the worst he had ever seen” to finally come back from the hell that was his painkiller addiction. Today, more than five years ...
June 14th, 2012
Drug Addiction Not a Moral Failing, Obama Administration Says
From a moral failure to a chronic disease, the way that drug addiction is being viewed by the American government is changing drastically. Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said in a speech Monday that drug addiction is “not a moral failing on the part of the individual,” but rather “a chronic disease ...
May 30th, 2012
Bath Salts: Cause of Miami Face-Eating Frenzy?
Yesterday the gruesome story of a Miami man who attacked and gnawed the face off of a homeless person was released, and has many wondering what would drive someone into such a frenzy. The likely answer: “bath salts.” Witnesses reported a man crouching over another and tearing the ...
May 23rd, 2012
UK Drug Abusers May Face New Government Ultimatum
In a controversial attempt to get addicts clean, the British government is considering cutting drug and alcohol addicts off of government aid if they reject treatment. Similar to that in the US, the UK offers unemployment benefits to those unable to maintain a job, but patience is running dry ...
April 25th, 2012
New Potential for Anti-Addiction Medication
According to a recent study funded by the National Institute of Health, a new medication for drug addiction is on its way as researchers learn more about another opioid receptor subtype in the brain known as the kappa opioid receptor (KOR). KOR is the only known opioid receptor which ...
April 9th, 2012
Prescription Painkillers: A Growing Trend
It has become common knowledge that legal drugs are not necessarily safe drugs, but recent figures released by the DEA suggest more people are ignoring this fact as the years go on. Prescription painkillers sales have skyrocketed in the last decade, and reports show that in 2010 alone 69 tons ...
March 26th, 2012
Medical Marijuana Patients Question Legalization Measures
Washington state will be voting on an initiative I-502, to legalize marijuana, and if it passes the November 2012 ballot, it will be the first state to install laws regarding the legal recreational use of marijuana. Seattle has held many annual events such as the Seattle Hempfest festival which ...
