From its early use and endorsement by Sigmund Freud and appearance in dozens of beverages, cocaine was initially synthesized and sold legally by many pharmaceutical companies in the latter half of the 19th century. 

Drug company discoveries have a history of being marketed until deemed dangerous and made illegal because of "side-effects".  For many decades now cocaine has been considered one

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CANADIAN, OK?"I became a statistic at the age of 20 when I started using heroin," explains Erica, a beautiful young lady that recently completed the Narconon Arrowhead drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. 

"There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin."  By looking at her one would never guess that she was a former drug addict. 

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One need not look far to find a major source of trouble in America; drugs.  There are approximately 22 million people in this country addicted to substances such as cocaine, heroin, alcohol and methamphetamine, which is the cause of innumerable other social problems.  However, there is another group of drugs and their manufacturers that is causing an entirely new set of problems.

The 2003

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National Center for Health Statistics shows nearly half of the adult population has used prescription drugs in the last month

Recent information from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that nearly half of U.S. adults have taken prescription drugs within the past 30 days.  The segment of the population showing the most prescription drug use was white non-Hispanic women (54 percent)

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National survey shows little change in overall adolescent drug use and slight increase in prescription sedatives and painkillers.

The results from the 2005 Monitoring the Future survey were released last week by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the University of Michigan.  Overall statistics show a very slight decline in illicit drug use among teens, but the use of prescription

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The controversy over the millions of our nation's children being put on drugs for subjectively diagnosed "learning disorders" widens with new facts about the abuse of prescription stimulants. 

A recent CESAR Fax from the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland says that through the latest national survey on drug abuse approximately three to five percent of high school

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More than 31 million Americans have used prescription drugs non-medically

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is working with state legislatures to cut down the rising numbers of prescription drug abusers.  National surveys show that the non-medical use of prescription drugs continues to rise in America.

The number of people who had used pain relievers non-medically at least

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The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reports that abuse of prescription drugs has nearly doubled

Many of us were raised to think that there are such things as good drugs, like different types of over the counter and prescription drugs, and bad drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin or LSD. The simple fact is that they are all still drugs and all drugs have immediate and long-term side

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The findings of the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health were released yesterday at the annual Recovery Month press conference by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  While the overall change in the category "current use of any illicit drug" was not statistically significant, the number of young adults abusing prescription drugs did increase

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One need not look far to find a major source of trouble in America; drugs.  There are approximately 22 million people in this country addicted to substances such as cocaine, heroin, alcohol and methamphetamine, which is the cause of innumerable other social problems.  However, there is another group of drugs and their manufacturers that is causing an entirely new set of problems.

The 2003

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