Social Environmental Factors in Addiction and new Synthetic Psychoactive Substances
Dr Carl Hart, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University, has been the focus lately on his controversial research into the social, environmental factors of addiction. Also, a new study from SAMSHA and the UN highlights the increasingly obvious risks of new highly powerful designer drugs including so-called bath salts and K2 or spice. PODCAST
Molly
Molly … is a drug made up of cocaine, crack, ecstasy, meth & bath salt…Molly is a street name for drugs – vary from era to era, fad to fad, state to state, town to town, neighborhood to neighborhood and even from cadre of friends to cadre of friends in the same neighborhood…
Marijuana is amotivational? and UN World Report 2013
New research using PET scans shows long-term a-motivational syndrome in pot smokers. Also the new yearly UN drug report – showing cocaine and meth use flat, and skyrocketing use of new synthetics: spice, bath salts, etc. PODCAST.
Trends in Drug Use and Treatment
A look back at 2012, and what 2013 might hold in drug and addiction issues, and treatment … including the continuing stories of the new synthetics, aka bath salts, incense and potpourri — also the continued increase in heroin use as pharmaceuticals become more costly and harder to get. And where are we in the evolution of treatment?
More on Bath Salts and Prescription Rx abuse
…”bath salts” and synthetic marijuana are difficult to identify and test for, because their chemical structure can and does change often, largely in response to laws trying to outlaw them … and the new law attempting to ban all such substances signed recently by President Obama.
Bath Salts responsible for zombie-like attack
Bath salt – stimulants similar to ecstasy, are street-chemist versions of the middle eastern Khat plant, and are being associated with a new wave of extremely violent behavior, and fatal overdoses. The recent zombie-like attack in Miami, where a homeless man had literally 3/4 of his face chewed off by someone high on bath salts, has galvanized public attention to the dangers of these fairly new designer drugs.