Medication Used improperly, prescription sleeping pills (called sedative-hypnotics) can be as addictive as alcohol and can produce unpleasant withdrawal symptoms if stopped abruptly. You can develop a tolerance to sleeping pills in as little as two weeks of frequent use. In other words, you need higher and higher amounts to fall asleep. Older people should […]
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Substance Use & Abuse Avoid getting hooked on medicines. Prescribed drugs provide relief for people with chronic pain, anxiety, and other health problems. But taken the wrong way or without a prescription, these drugs pose serious health risks and addiction. A number of national surveys report that prescription drug abuse is becoming more and more
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Substance Use & Abuse Horse. Harry. Scag. Junk. Lords. Schoolboy. Morpho. Hocus. Unkie. Powder. Joy. Snow. Miss Emma. Dollies. These are just a few of the street names for narcotic drugs. Heroin, morphine, and cocaine are the three most common illegally used drugs. Each is powerfully addictive. Obvious symptoms of ongoing drug use include: *
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Substance Use & Abuse Don’t let drug or alcohol dependence rob you of a quality life. You know you can’t go on this way much longer. Your drug or alcohol addiction is destroying your relationships, your career, and your health. Reasons to get help: * Calling in sick at work, showing up late, or making
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Substance Use & Abuse Some parents feel like they have to sleep with both eyes open when their children are growing up. Adolescence is a natural period of experimentation. Coupled with the profound physical and emotional changes kids undergo at this time, using drugs (including alcohol) is a potential problem-and a serious one. Aside from
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Substance Use & Abuse Support and gentle guidance may be key to recovery. It’s hard to be supportive and caring when you’re watching a person you love destroy him or herself with drugs and/or alcohol. People who abuse alcohol or other drugs may not be able to admit they have a problem. If family members
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Substance Use & Abuse As recently as the late 1970s, cocaine was considered almost perfect, as illegal drugs go: It apparently offered no threat of addiction, only the promise of pleasure and euphoria. How wrong that belief turned out to be. Cocaine lures users toward a titillating but short-lived high, followed by a gripping physical
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Substance Use & Abuse Are some people more at risk than others? Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease. It causes compulsive drug seeking and using, despite the harm it costs. Over time, brain changes occur that destroy a person’s ability for self-control. Even if a person wants to quit, willpower is not enough
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WELL-BEING Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid, 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. Doctors prescribe pharmaceutical fentanyl to treat severe pain. However, illegal fentanyl is often mixed with other illicit drugs, such as heroin and cocaine. Rainbow fentanyl is an illegally manufactured drug dyed in bright colors and shaped to
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WORK LIFE Keeping the workplace drug-free is essential for everyone’s health and safety. Unhealthy use of any type of drug or substance These can include: * Illegal or prescription drugs * Alcohol * Tobacco * Marijuana Risks with substance abuse * Dependence or addiction * Poor decision making * Damaged relationships * Declining physical health
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