Addictive Stimulants Relatively Unknown
The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia gives information on these additional stimulants that can cause drug addiction.
Drug addiction, whether to well known drugs such as methamphetamine, or to these less known cousins, is something avoided is adolescents if they have the facts.
Know these facts given by The Atlanta Recovery Center [...]
Amphetamines: Killer Stimulants
Amphetamines were developed in the beginnings of the 20th century. As use of amphetamines spread, so did their abuse. In the 1960s, amphetamines became a perceived remedy for helping truckers to complete their long routes without falling asleep, for weight control, for helping athletes to perform better and train longer, and for treating [...]
Cocaine Drug Addiction Facts
Cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit drug (following marijuana) in the United States. According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than 34 million Americans (14.7%) age 12 or older had used cocaine at least once in their lifetime.
“While coca leaves have been used for centuries [...]
What Are Stimulants?
The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia explains what stimulants are and the effect they have on the person abusing them.
“Education is the best tool we have to fight drug addiction,” states Director Mary Rieser, The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia. “The more information we have, the better chance we [...]
Atlanta Recovery Center Warns of Synthetic Narcotic Deaths
In contrast to the pharmaceutical products derived from opium, synthetic narcotics are produced entirely within the laboratory. The continuing search for products that retain the analgesic properties of morphine without the consequent dangers of tolerance and dependence has yet to yield a product that is not susceptible to [...]
Addictive Opiate- Heroin, Hydromorphone, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone
Many people do not realize that opiates and narcotics come from three sources: natural narcotics, made from the poppy, semi-synthetic narcotics, which are the same substances which are more processed and refined, and completely synthetic opiates which don’t use any of the ingredients found in the poppy plant.
“The narcotic drugs [...]
Narcotics Information, Narcotics of Natural Origin
Narcotics have been used for centuries for pain relief and for their calming purposes. The original narcotics were derived from the poppy plant, and products derived from the poppy plant directly are called non-synthetic narcotics. In the past 70 years scientists have derived other narcotics, some still using the [...]
Narcotics Account For Countless Deaths, Addictions
The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia, as part of its drug-education campaign, educates the public on the facts about narcotics and narcotics addiction.
With the escalating death toll of those abusing prescription drugs, and the switching to street drugs such as heroin or opium, it is becoming more [...]
Xanax Abused by Many, Causing Xanax Addiction
Many are now finding themselves in a drug rehab, unwittingly becoming addicted to prescription drugs.
Myra, a housewife, mother of 4, and grandmother to two, tells her story of her life before coming to The Atlanta Recovery Center to get help to quit her Xanax addiction:
I had a great life, [...]
Teens: Easy to Abuse Prescription Drugs, Often With Deadly Results
Prescription drugs are the most common abused drugs by teens, after marijuana, a study has recently shown.
This is not surprising, as prescription drugs are normally easily available, found in medicine cabinets at home. These prescription drugs, usually opiates such as OxyContin or Percocet, or benzodiazepines, such [...]
