Addiction News | Addiction News – Addiction Information

recreational drugs

03/26/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Street drug laced with BUG SPRAY transforms casual users into crazed ZOMBIES

One of the least expensive but deadliest street drugs available today is known as KD, Katie or Zombie. This drug may contain different ingredients, but the common denominator is always bug spray. Users take marijuana, banana leaves, tobacco or spice and lace it with a bug spray, most often Raid. This concoction is then smoked, […]

12/15/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Some things haven’t changed: Teens addicted to marijuana or alcohol are less likely to have life success as adults, such as getting educated or owning a home

The Beatles had it right: “pools of sorrow, waves of joy” do influence the universe you create — be that for the better or worse. Researchers of a new study emphasize what we’ve been told millions of times before. Abusing either alcohol or marijuana as a teenager or young adult increases the likelihood of having […]

07/20/2017 / By Russel Davis

Heroin epidemic leaving a trail of dirty needles in rivers, beaches, and playgrounds

The worsening heroin epidemic in the United States has raised safety concerns for both the environment and the general population. In fact, not half of 2017 has passed and yet authorities in Portland, Maine have already collected more than 7,000 discarded syringes left by drug users, exceeding the nearly 900 discarded syringes collected in all of […]

1 of 1