Addiction Blog Articles

Suicides in Treatment and Aftercare

Suicide is a significant health and social problem and those with any form of addiction are most at risk. Numerous studies have highlighted the link between addiction and suicide. It is well known that alcohol, and many other…

No Smoking Day 2021

As today is No Smoking Day, it is a good idea to focus on why quitting smoking is beneficial. Not only are there health benefits, but also financial ones as the price of tobacco is so high. The health problems caused by smoking are…

Can Gaming Become a Problem?

Gaming is the activity of playing games on computers or some other form of electronic game. This could be on a games console, pc or mobile phone. Gaming is an extremely popular pastime of youths today, but when does gaming cease becoming a hobby and start becoming an addiction…

The Business of Drugs:

Opioids

The sixth and final episode of the Netflix series ‘The Business of Drugs’ covers opioid use and opioid addiction. As the episode begins, we are given a set of statistics which are truly shocking…

The Business of Drugs:

Cannabis

The fifth episode of the Netflix series ‘The Business of Drugs’ examines the production and sale of cannabis. The presenter, Amaryllis Fox, focuses largely on the legality of cannabis in the US — she examines certain…

The Business of Drugs:

Meth

This blog is a review of the fourth episode of the Netflix series ‘The Business of Drugs’ and it is about the drug meth.

This episode begins with a trip to Myanmar in South East Asia. It is a relatively unknown fact that the biggest…

The Business of Drugs:

Heroin

The third episode in the Netflix series ‘The Business of Drugs’ looks at heroin production. The episode begins in the slums of Kenya where a heroin dealer explains his reasons for producing the drug. Selling heroin is his only means…

The Business of Drugs:

Synthetics

The second episode in the Netflix series ‘The Business of Drugs’ covers synthetics — drugs made from synthetic substances. Amaryllis Fox introduced the episode by acknowledging Dr Alexander Shulgin. When he was…

The Effect of Alcoholism on the Family Unit

Alcohol addiction has a devastating effect on the personal lives of the addict and their family and friends. Nobody escapes unscathed when there is an addict in the family, and the ease with which alcohol is available and socially acceptable only adds to the problem. So what is the impact of alcoholism on families…

The Business of Drugs:

Cocaine

‘The Business of Drugs’ — Episode 1 deals with cocaine addiction. The presenter of this series is a former CIA analyst, Amaryllis Fox. Her research and investigation into the war on drugs delves into the economics of…

The Link Between Bullying and Substance Abuse

This blog is going to examine the link between bullying and substance abuse. As discuseed in our previous blog, there is a ink between bullying and mental health issues, but what do bullying and substance abuse have in common? To answer this, it is important to look at the relationship between bullying and substance abuse. The term substance abuse is not limited to just drugs and alcohol…

Our Relationship with Alcohol

According to WHO (the World Health Organisation) alcohol is responsible for around 3.3 million deaths every year which is almost 6% of all deaths. This is a shocking statistic! Most alcohol-related deaths result from injuries, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and liver cirrhosis. There is also the danger of alcohol poisoning when people misjudge the effects of alcohol…

Young People and Drug Abuse

A question many parents and teachers ask is: “What can we do to prevent young people experimenting with drugs?” This is a difficult question, and one which causes much disagreement and debate. But it is a question that needs to be addressed.

The drug-related death of somebody famous will often draw the nation’s attention to the issue of drug abuse (we can think of famous people such as River Phoenix, Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix to name a few)…

Smoking-Related Health Hazards

Current or former smokers make up 90% of patients with lung cancer and smokers have a 70% greater risk of cardiovascular disease. Women who smoke 40 or more cigarettes daily have a 74% greater chance of dying from breast cancer. Many of these statistics are widely publicised and many smokers know of the risks to their health in relation to tobacco smoking…

World No Tobacco Day 2012

Thursday 31st May is ‘World No Tobacco Day 2012’. It is a day full of activities to make people aware of numerous smoking-related health problems such as cancer of the mouth, larynx, throat, oesophagus, pancreas, stomach, small intestine, bladder, kidney, and cervix, as well as stroke, heart attack and chronic lung disease. It is also an opportunity to have a no smoking day…