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Morphine Addiction and How to Overcome It

Morphine is a potent analgesic that can quickly become addictive, changing a person’s brain chemistry over time. When someone becomes addicted to morphine, they may experience physical and psychological dependence, leading to withdrawal symptom...

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Cigarette Smoking and Its Effects on People

Smoking is dangerous to your physical and mental health. You can develop diseases even when you are not smoking yourself. It affects people of all ages, and it is more dangerous for vulnerable people, like kids and the elderly. Smoking causes disease...

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How Drug Addiction Affects Families

Substance abuse disorders ruined many lives. It affects people’s brains and behavior to the point where they can no longer control the use of illegal (and legal) drugs, even when they know its negative effects. It causes the following problems ...

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Why the First Step is Always the Hardest

Drug Addiction should not be brushed aside; because it is a chronic disease it poses a grave and imminent threat not just to the patient but to the people around him. We’ve seen too many homes and lives wrecked because of substance ab...

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How Substance Abuse Affects Mental Health

It should not come off as a surprise that drug addiction and poor mental health are closely intertwined because the latter could cause the other and vice versa, and both may even simultaneously occur. Most people with bad Mental Health woul...

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Hepatitis C and Substance Abuse Disorder

Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by the Hepatitis C virus. Anyone who had blood contact with an infected person is likely to get the disease. While it can be infectious in the short term, some may develop a chronic or lifelong infection which ...

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