For recreational users, ketamine offers a means for escaping the pressures of daily life. During the holiday season, daily life pressures will likely increase considerably. Using ketamine to cope with mounting family obligations and buying gifts while trying to get into the holiday spirit can be a recipe for disaster. While ketamine may not lead …

Prescription painkillers have advantages and people who take them under the full supervision of a licensed medical professional receive those benefits and are consistently able to manage the negative side effects with the help of their doctor. However, those who use prescription painkillers recreationally don’t have that benefit and will, instead, have their lives succumb …

Traditionally, addiction has been treated outside of the medical world. The Los Angeles Times reports: “Nine out of 10 people addicted to drugs other than nicotine receive no treatment, and most of those who do get it are put through unproven programs run by people without medical training, according to a 500-plus-page report released by …

The cost of substance abuse in the United States has reached well into the hundreds of billions annually. Some people go down this path and never return to their sober life. Others, however, realize that they are able to recover from their addiction by taking the right approach. For one reason or another, many people …

Unlike the naturally occurring narcotics such as morphine which are derived from the poppy plant and do not require synthetic changes in a laboratory setting, synthetic narcotics are produced entirely within a lab and are not actually made from the opium poppy at all. Although these drugs may not come from the same naturally occurring plant …

Most of the time, the term narcotics refers to opiates or opioid painkillers that are available through prescription from a doctor but the term can also refer to other drugs such as marijuana, cocaine or methamphetamine. Various narcotics addiction treatment options exist to assist those who become hopelessly addicted to drug to get the help and …

Narcotics addiction is a potentially deadly disease that often requires more than just counseling and therapy to treat. Many narcotics such as opiates or opioid based pain medications are highly addictive physically and are best treated using various medications in combination with counseling and therapy. The most common medications used in narcotics addiction treatment include: Methadone …

Prescription drug overdose has emerged to become a public health problem of national concern. The number of people who die as a result of prescription narcotics overdose has risen to more than 20 thousand people annually and these numbers continue to rise every day. Opioids and prescription opiates account for the majority of narcotics overdose …