Heroin use is a difficult drug to decide to do according to some recent studies. One of the biggest reasons why heroin is so scary is because of the fact that heroin abuse in most forms is injected. This scares many people off from the needles. Not only do many people hate the thought of [...]
Ketamine has become a wildly used drug for party goers. Originally meant for anesthesia it is now used to get high mostly among young adults or club goers. Due to the relatively low withdrawal symptoms it is increasing among the young.
Hallucinations, slowed breathing, euphoria are just a few side effects of ketamine abuse also known [...]
Lately, I have seen personally lives turned upside down due to crack cocaine. Crack cocaine is the solid form of cocaine (which is the powder).
Crack cocaine is usually smoked but can also be injected. Immediate effects are euphoria, weightlessness. Secondary effects are paranoia, heavy breathing.
Crack cocaine is a very addicting drug. It is not easy [...]
Prescription Drug Abuse is one of the most scarily accessible drug that there is. Between being able to legally obtain them from a licensed Dr, to being able to purchase them over the internet. Here at Atlanta Recovery Center we are striving along with the Georgia Legislature to stop the ease of being able to [...]
Addicts some feel embarrassed about their drug addiction. They feel like there is no way out of the addiction. They continue to do the drug that they are addicted to just because they feel like there is nothing else.
Many times one does these drugs at work thinking they are not effecting anyone around them. When [...]
Getting sober and staying that way requires that the addict get back in touch with themselves and the environment. Here is a success story from the Atlanta Recovery Center
addiction treatment program where a person is doing just that. Once hopeless addicted to oxycontin and Xanax, he is well on the way to complete sobriety
“This exercise [...]
Attitudes are very much a part of drug addiction. Your mood swings are dramatic on any type of drug and alcohol. Because of the chemicals in the drugs and the effects on the brain it causes you to become what Dr’s routinely call “bi-polar”
One minute you are running around the next min you want to [...]
Prescription Drug Abuse is on the rise in this country. We need to increase awareness in the country about this growing tread. Doctors are finding it harder to turn down the extra money that the prescription drug companies offer.
As you may have read on a previous blog, drug companies are paying big bucks to have [...]
“I had a huge win in class today – HUGE WIN.
When I started doing drugs, almost immediately all sense of my self control went out the door! I felt like I had lost it completely. Now, after doing this program and clearing my mind and body, I am proud to say I have regained my [...]
