Cocaine addiction might soon be treated with a new vaccine, a toxic cocktail of flu virus and coke that can teach the body to fight off cocaine before it reaches the brain. The very latest in research to provide addict help for people to beat addiction to cocaine. Research experiments from Weill Cornell University use immunity provoking extracts from adenoviruses attached to a chemical similar to cocaine as a potential vaccine against the effects of cocaine use in the body. The vaccine … [Read more...] about Cocaine Addiction: New Vaccine a Toxic Cocktail
Cocaine Addiction
Hazardous Waste – Speed Labs and Cocaine
Hazardous wasteproducts from speed labs and illicit drug manufacture, such as cocaine production are extremely toxic. A call for more addict help should go out to governments, on behalf of the world environment. The public is made very aware of the toxic ingredients that make up the final content of illicitly manufactured street drugs such as crack, speed, GBH and crystal meth. Drug cartels manufacture vast quantities of drugs such as cocaine. They have neither capacity nor intention to … [Read more...] about Hazardous Waste – Speed Labs and Cocaine
Celebrities – Cocaine and Drug Addiction: Addict Help.
Whilst the content of a recent interview with “recovering” cocaine addict Aaron Sorkin is no doubt well intentioned, as being an admission, rather than a denial of the problems which this renowned author and playwright has faced as a result of his cocaine use over the years, there are aspects of it which are quite frankly disturbing. People who place reliance for their income and social prestige upon being in the spotlight and have a public following, together with those who create the … [Read more...] about Celebrities – Cocaine and Drug Addiction: Addict Help.
Cocaine Addiction Help
To get real cocaine addiction help, other than prescription or pharmacy medications for symptomatic relief, it needs to be understood that the primary cause of cocaine addiction is psychological – an attempt to create a “high” that the user feels he needs. Authorities in the substance abuse field have long established that physical dependency plays only a minor role in the development of cocaine addiction and dependency. In other words, long before the body is addictively demanding cocaine, … [Read more...] about Cocaine Addiction Help
What to do with a Cocaine Addict in your Family
Drugs do not just affect those who are addicted. The pain and suffering of addiction is far reaching and includes friends and loved ones. Living with, or having a cocaine addict in the family can cause rifts between every member of the family. Many people are torn between trying to “help” the addict by enabling them to continue to do drugs, and wanting to take action to see that the addict gets help. There is an old expression called “tough love” and being committed to getting help for an … [Read more...] about What to do with a Cocaine Addict in your Family
The Last Words of a Dying Woman
In her hospital bed she narrated the painful story . . . then she died. But the story was a lesson to many. For the wise learn from other people’s mistakes and not from their own mistakes. This is the painful story of Cate... It all started when I was in high school. Exams were hard; we even called them ICU (Intensive cramming unit). A friend told me of how Marijuana would calm my mind and that I could read day and night. I tried for the first time and it worked pretty well. The next time I … [Read more...] about The Last Words of a Dying Woman
Cocaine Addiction Treatment
Cocaine addiction treatment is a complicated process. It is quite hard to overcome the addiction of cocaine since once taken into the body it circulates throughout the bloodstream causing serious cravings and anxiety. Statistics show that cocaine addiction recovery is in between 3% to 76%. This depends upon the cocaine addiction treatment chosen. People choose cocaine, albeit very expensive, because its effect is immediate, extra pleasurable, and brief. It has intense and short-lived euphoria … [Read more...] about Cocaine Addiction Treatment
How to Handle a Crack Addict
Depending on how long a crack addict has been addicted, will have a great bearing on how to handle the person. If the person has not been addicted very long, maybe it will be easier to talk to him or her and get him into a program, perhaps even an outpatient one. However, if the person has been on it for awhile, there may be a big problem with denial and it is best to seek the advice and counsel of professionals. An intervention is a good way to go with a crack addict and doing so with a … [Read more...] about How to Handle a Crack Addict
Treatment for Cocaine Addicts
Cocaine addiction and its abuse are plaguing most countries. Cocaine addiction treatment is highly complex since it involves a lot of changes that take place biologically in the addict’s brains along with changes in factors such as environmental, family, and social changes. Cocaine is consumed orally either through snorting it, through certain intervals or through inhaling the fumes by heating the substance (this is how crack is consumed). Cocaine addiction takes a person through a high, … [Read more...] about Treatment for Cocaine Addicts