Category: Drug addiction

What is Subutex?

Subutex is  an opioid-type medicine, which contains the active ingredient buprenorphine. Opioids act in the same way as other strong painkillers such as codeine, morphine,

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Pills Anonymous

Prescription medications In the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous people were rife with addiction to prescription medications. There was little divergence for the early members between

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Heroin dangers

Heroin is used recreationally due to the intense sense of euphoria and relaxation induced when it is taken and is arguably the world’s most addictive

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Prescription Drugs

Drug addiction has been around for a very long time. From opium in the seventeenth century in China to cocaine leaves grown in the foothills

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Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine can be taken in many different ways ending up with addiction, the vapour can be smoked, it can be injected in the liquid form,

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Ketamine Misuse

What is ketamine? Conventionally, Ketamine is known to be used in veterinary medicine as an anaesthetic. Occasionally, in paediatric medicine it’s used for the same

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Crystal Methamphetamine

What is methamphetamine? N-methyl-1-phenyl-propan-2-amine, also referred to as methamphetamine, methylamphetamine, or desoxyephedrine, commonly recognised as ‘meth’. In crystalline form, the chemical called crystal meth. Commonly

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