Marijuana, one of the most common illicit drugs being abused in the United States, not only causes long and short-term effects on the brain, but also has the potential to cause other types of physical ailments. However, marijuana’s action on the body and the brain is open to much debate and is in many ways […]
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Drug abuse has become a global menace that affects millions of people worldwide. Although it is a common insight that genetics plays a major role in developing the problem of drug addiction and abuse, sometimes the issue can be more than genetics. Certain external factors, such as mental health issues, stress, environment, social surrounding, etc., […]
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Problems related to opioid use have reached epidemic levels in the United States, prevalent in both men and women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests a higher prevalence of chronic pain and use of prescription opioid pain medications in women than men with nearly 48,000 deaths caused due to prescription painkiller overdose […]
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The opioid epidemic continues unabated in the United States. In 2015, over 33,000 Americans died as a result of opioid overdoses. The widespread abuse of opioids has led to a crackdown on indiscriminate prescription of painkillers by physicians and health care providers, making it more difficult for people to obtain drugs. To circumvent this problem, […]
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