Bill Moving Forward to Fight Detox Deaths in Utah Jail With the opioid crisis in full swing, many county jails across Utah are seeing more and more people detained while withdrawing from their addiction. Legislators are working to pass a bill in which research would be implemented where alcohol and substance abuse withdrawals within county … Read More
Extra warnings of addiction with opioid use in Utah In Utah, lawmakers recently pushed forward some bills indicating that extra warnings for patients about addiction risks when taking opioid painkillers will be required. The new bills indicate that pharmacies are required to label pill containers with the following caution: “Caution: Opioid. Risk of overdose and … Read More
Increase in Baby Boomer Drug Use The opioid addiction has definitely reached crisis status. However, when you think of individuals that struggle with addiction to opioid drugs, most of us picture younger individuals — definitely not retired or elderly persons. However, there is also an increase in baby boomer drug use— especially in relation to … Read More
An Interesting Perspective on Guns and Drugs A recent article by Jay Stooksberry was printed in Newsweek indicating that if the war on drugs was to be stopped, the amount of gun violence in the US would significantly decline. The article points to evidence of when Prohibition was in effect and violence increased, as well … Read More
Do Women Who Drink Alcohol Eat More? Many of us made New Year’s Resolutions not that long ago to eat less, exercise more, and get healthier. How are you measuring up? Recent studies indicate that alcohol may be getting in the way of your goals, especially if you are female. That is to say, the … Read More
What are Benzos? Benzodiazepines, known to many as “benzos,” are man-made medications that cause mild to severe depression of the nerves within the brain (central nervous system) and sedation (drowsiness). Seizures, anxiety, and other diseases that require benzodiazepine treatment may be caused by excessive activity of nerves in the brain. These drugs may work by … Read More
Amphetamines: What are they? We’ve heard the term amphetamine but what exactly does it mean? The answer is amphetamines are stimulants that speed up the messages traveling between the brain and the body. There are legally prescribed amphetamines for things such as ADD and ADHD as well as for narcolepsy. There are also illegal amphetamines … Read More
What is Meth? These drug effects generally last from six to eight hours, but can last up to twenty-four hours. The first experience might involve some pleasure, but from the start, meth begins to destroy the user’s life. If you’ve ever seen before and after pictures of meth addicts you know that not only does … Read More
Bath Salts — synthetic drugs chemically related to cathinone, a stimulant found in the khat plant. Khat is a shrub grown in East Africa and southern Arabia, and people sometimes chew its leaves for their mild stimulant effects. However, when variants of cathinones are synthetic, the effects can be much stronger and more dangerous. So … Read More
Heroin Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants that predominantly grow in South America and, to a lesser extent, Southeast Asia. Milky, sap-like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower and then refined to make morphine. The morphine is refined further into different forms of … Read More
