Addiction Blog

Well, this blog post is a departure from many of the others that I’ve post over the past months, in that it talks about a song from Pink called “Sober”. All I knew about the song at first is that it had a rousing melody and was sung from the heart. Then I started listening to the lyrics. And from there I had to look up the lyrics online and watch the video on Youtube.

The Sober song is a meaningful anthem for anyone trying to kick addiction in the teeth. The lyrics cut to the core of why many people choose to get high and how they try to feel as good when they are sober. The video shows the struggle with self and how addiction can be consuming, yet can also be overcome. For drug and alcohol educators this song may be one that can be used to connect with an audience young and old.

There is a basic problem now days with the Mexican drug cartels and that is one of escalated illegal drug exports and violence. Mexican drug cartels slip marijuana and cocaine through the U. S. borders to networks in all major cities.

Violence in Mexico is escalated by U. S. made assault rifles which account for 90-percent of the guns confiscated in raids. The Mexican drug cartel business is estimated to bring in $18 billion to $40 billion annually.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman who heads up the Sinoloa cartel made the Forbes list of world’s richest men with a net worth of $1 billion. Guzman has also been accused of being responsible for 7,000 drug related deaths in 2008.

The ingredients to make homemade ecstasy often vary because “e” is an illegal and banned substance and there is no oversight in its manufacturing. Ecstasy is known as a “club drug” since it is often taken at discos, raves and nightclubs.

Those who are looking for the specific ingredients to make homemade ecstasy will be disappointed, since it is invariably made in a laboratory setting, albeit mostly those that are makeshift. The main ingredient in “e” is 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-Methylamphetamine also known as MDMA.

A couple more ingredients similar to MDMA are MDEA and MDA. In fact, both of these illicit drugs are so similar many people cannot tell the difference. Ecstasy may also be laced with a variety of other substances including amphetamines, LSD, ephedrine, Ketamine, caffeine and even aspirin.

If one is seeking out ingredients to make homemade Ecstasy, then some form of intervention and rehab may be in order. For other curious, academic types, then hopefully this information has helped.

Because of many restrictions over the past few years on buying the chemicals in the U. S. to make methamphetamines, many meth labs have moved south of the border. Or at least in theory. But many meth labs are still to be found on U. S. soil as well.

A search on Google News for “meth labs” will confirm many articles about drug busts that are still taking place on American soil. A quick scan of today’s stories include busts in Cuyahoga Falls, New York, Trenton, Ohio, Denver, Colorado, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Biloxi, Mississippi and City of Hurricane, West Virginia and this is just on the first page of results.

Even though a significant amount of meth may have move south, there is still homegrown methamphetamines to be found in a neighborhood near you. And this problem isn’t going away anytime soon.

Apparently not only humans have a taste for cocaine, but so do honeybees. While most insects are repelled by the Coca leaves because of their chemical content, bees will seek out cocaine and even go through withdrawal systems when the drug is not available.

According to Australian and U. S. researchers who reported their findings in the Journal of Experimental Biology, honeybees actually directed each other to the source of the cocaine. They even had a special “waggle dance” when high. The bees required higher ongoing doses to keep the intoxication going and when going through withdrawal they were less able to learn new tasks.

Ways to cook crack cocaine is one of the most searched for terms on the Internet. Now, since I posted How to Make Meth a little over a year ago, the comments have come flooding in. Some of the comments have been positive regarding survivors or their family members. Other comments have been rather rough, protesting that they were tricked by this post and don’t indeed have a problem.

As with that post, I decided to cast a wide net with the ways to cook crack cocaine post in order to try to get through to the few who need to hear it. I understand that many people want to know the different ways to cook crack cocaine merely out of curiosity or for some sort of research.

I also understand that ex-addicts and family members of addicts and ex-addicts will read this post. But, whom I would like to reach out to are the addicts and soon-to-be addicts who have truly come here to find out the ways to cook crack cocaine for use by themselves or by others.

If you’re one of these people, then please seek immediate help. Don’t delay, don’t deny. Get help now. If you are angered by this confrontation, then you may want to try and figure out why you are so angry. Did you get caught? Are you one step from getting caught?

Check out a treatment center now from this resource. Your friends and family will be glad you did and ultimately, you will come to thank yourself, too.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom who are studying laboratory rats have linked impulsive behavior to cocaine addiction. In the addiction field, it has been unclear to many scientists which came first, the impulsive behavior or the cocaine addiction leading to impulsivity.

Now, the researchers believe the behavior comes first. The researchers separated out two groups. The first was the impulsive group and the second was the thrill seeking group. The thrill seeking group sampled the cocaine first, but quickly lost interest thereafter. The impulsive group was slower to sample cocaine, but also was the group that became addicted.

With the pressure of school exams looming, more students are taking cognitive performance enhancing drugs in order to pass tests. According to the Academy of Medical Sciences, more kids are dipping into their parents and grandparents medicine cabinets to take prescription medication normally meant to treat Alzheimer’s Disease and ADHD.

Because of test examination pressure, students are looking to enhance memory and boost alertness with these drugs. No longer is caffeine the drug of choice for many students as other cognitive performance enhancing drugs (which can be likened to sports performance enhancing drugs) are now taking the forefront.

Researchers from John Moores University in Liverpool, UK have concluded that over 50-percent of the city’s youth have taken cocaine. Liverpool was one of nine European cities named in the report and the site of the most prevalent use of drugs and alcohol.

The findings suggested that those from ages 16 to 35 turn to drugs and alcohol as a cultural norm aimed at enhancing their sex lives. There were 1,341 youngsters surveyed led by the University’s Professor Mark Bellis.

Even though there were protests from some groups that Liverpool was unfairly targeted by the survey, these same groups also acknowledged there is indeed a significant cocaine problem in the city due to its prevalence and availability.

Tonight, at 6:30 pm on most stations, the documentary “Crystal Darkness” will appear with a message about methamphetamines: don’t do it. The documentary will air on all English and Spanish TV stations.

Because meth production inside the United States has slowed down, but continues to flow across the border from Mexico, Arizona continues to be a hotbed for meth abuse. In 2007, about 8-percent of those who checked into drug and alcohol treatment centers stated that meth was their drug of choice.

While law enforcement officials have found it difficult to pin down the pervasiveness of meth because of how it is reported in the state, government officials are also aware that methamphetamines are like no other drug as far as addictive qualities and the rewiring of brain function.