Pictures are always a far better way to demonstrate something like this. This is known as “Meth Mouth” and it’s a pretty good reason to not become a methamphetamine user.

According to new research from Australia, long term Cannabis use causes “significant” damage to the areas of the brain that control memory and emotion.
Using brain scans, the researchers were able to determine that parts of the brain were actually shrinking in the long term cannabis users they were studying.
More here.
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This may be the newest pick up line in a bar since “What’s your sign?” The reply might be something like “I don’t know what type are you?”
Thanks to the good people at the NIH (National institutes of health) this answer couldn’t come at a better time. With the holidays approaching and the office parties [...]

Recently while doing a bit of reading and research about alcohol treatment and rehabilitation, I stumbled upon a few very interesting articles and then I followed the threads from there, and into what seems to me a fantasy world of delusion and denial. From there it went into one of perverse irony and implausible denial.
Let [...]

At the risk of dating myself (I’m old if you must know) I’ve gotten a kick out the recent marketing campaigns of certain beverage companies such as Miller and Anheuser Busch with some of their new energy drinks they go beyond the burgeoning market and now incorporate alcohol (ETOH) into them.
What’s entertaining to me? Well [...]

Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable for North Wales, says that a drugs policy based on prohibition has failed, in a presentation he made to North Wales Police Authority today.
The Independent has covered his main points critical of drug prohibition, which are not new to critics of government drug policies but which have been welcomed [...]

Well you might have noticed that Rehabology has been down for a little while. Well, we had a few issues with the evil bastards that host our site (SiteGround.com in case anyone is wondering) and well, we kinda struggled to get things back on track.
But now, as you can see, we are indeed back and [...]

As if you don’t have enough problems already you’re about to get another one. Yes that’s right Liver disease, pancreatitus, jail, loss of life, loved ones well of course I could go on and on. Be it a DUI or the myriad of other potential issues drinking to excess and on a regular or even daily basis may cause, you’re about to get tested by anyone who may have the authority to do so to see just how much you’ve had in the past few weeks.

This was mind-numbing (pun intended) news when I read it. The good old USofA my country tis of thee is consuming extraordinary amounts of pain medication up 90%. Hundreds of thousands of pounds (about 300mgs for every single American) worth of some very potent narcotics has been proscribed over the past ten years.

Do Americans (and others) who use illegal drugs have the blood of the victims of the drug trade on their hands, even though the substances’ very prohibition is a major reason for the spillage? Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson, an economist at Grove City College, believes so and has laid down a challenge to libertarians in particular who, while correct about the major reason behind the violence inherent in the illegal drug trade, believe that drug usage is a victimless crime.