Marijuana is, without a doubt, one of the most hotly debated drugs. On one hand, you could argue that considering it’s so widely used for medicinal purposes, it must have beneficial qualities but on the other, it’s still a drug and an illegal one in many parts of the world. What’s the truth about cannabis? Below [...]
When you see someone in the midst of an addiction, it’s so easy for an outsider to wonder why the person doesn’t just get help. It seems the obvious solution but sadly, addiction just isn’t that simple. Millions of people suffer from a dependency in Canada but only a small percentage will ever enter rehab. [...]
Most of us have had people in our lives who have experimented with drugs. Some people we know have kept it at the experimental stage and decided they wanted nothing more to do with it. However, an increasing number of people have become addicted. Drug addiction is a physical dependency on a chemical substance. However, [...]
Do you or someone you know take prescription medications? Do you know how to recognize the signs of prescription drugs abuse? The definition of prescription drug abuse is taking medications that have psychoactive, or mind-altering properties for reasons or in amounts not intended by a doctor, or taken by someone other than who the medicine [...]