Teens Like E-Cigarettes More than Marijuana and Cocaine - http://clapway.com/2016/01/07/teens-like-e-cigarettes-more-than-marijuana-and-cocaine-123/

New reports from the CDC claim that TV, print and online advertisements about e-cigarettes are specifically targeting teens in America. According to Center of Disease Control statistics, 7 out of 10 high school and middle school students are exposed to e-cigarette advertisements.

E-Cigarettes Have Great Marketing Teams

Companies that produce e-cigarettes are investing tens of millions of dollars to target American teenagers specifically. Most of them use similar themes: rebellion, independence, and sex. The tobacco industry did the same. This resulted in a peak in kids smoking and kids with tobacco addictions.

The point of e-cigarettes was to be an alternative to tobacco smoking in adults. They should not induce a smoking habit in teenagers. After decades of pushing back the trend, it is turning itself around. This is probably happening because e-cigarettes are not regulated as closely as they should be. Many organizations have encouraged governments to take action. Some flavors in e-cigarettes are known to give people diseases like popcorn lung among other health effects that have not been properly dealt with.

E-Cigarette Ads Will Soon Be Banned

Tobacco ads were banned in America as of 1971, and soon enough, the same will happen for e-cigarettes. Right now, nearly seventy percent of all teenagers are exposed to these ads. This makes them more vulnerable to nicotine addiction.

Between 2011 and 2014, advertising funds for e-cigarettes went from $6.4 million to $115 million. That’s a very significant change. Use of e-cigarettes in high school students rocketed to 13.4%. Use among middle school students went up to 3.9%.

Teens Prefer E-Cigarettes to Marijuana and Cocaine

Marijuana and cocaine are not widely advertised in the media. Because of that, e-cigarettes have become more popular. Nicotine is highly addictive. I can prime the human brain to become dependent on other substances. This kind of danger has to be avoided. Gateway drugs like alcohol and nicotine are probably the most dangerous.

How to Deal with the Threat of E-Cigarettes

The CDC has made several suggestions as to how this should be handled. The government could enforce a law that required tobacco and e-cigarette sellers to be a certain distance from schools. They could limit tobacco sales to places that do not admit students. This is probably the most reasonable way to handle this on the short-term. On the long term, e-cigarettes will follow the same path as traditional cigarettes and get banned completely from the media.

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Teens Like E-Cigarettes More than Marijuana and Cocaine

Painkillers Can Kill You Faster Than Cocaine, But Not as Fast as Heroin - http://clapway.com/2015/12/22/painkillers-can-kill-you-faster-than-cocaine-but-not-as-fast-as-heroin-123/

The CDC has released new figures on how many drug overdose deaths were reported in 2014. There were 47,055 deaths related to painkillers, cocaine and heroin last year. 28,647 alone were associated with opioids. These are commonly found in prescription painkillers.

Legal or Not, Painkillers Were the Top Kind of Drug Overdose Death Reported

According to the report, more people die per year from drug-related overdoses than they do in traffic accidents. Less than 33,000 deaths are reported from car crashes, which is staggeringly less than drug overdose deaths.

The report involves deaths from powerful painkillers, sedatives, heroin, cocaine and other legal and illegal drugs. The lead researcher of the report, Rose Budd, declared that this confirms that the opioid overdose epidemic is only getting worse. The report urges the community for a need for action to prevent opioid abuse, dependency, and death. The way these painkillers are prescribed must be adjusted. These drugs are perfectly capable of creating opioid use disorders.

Drug Addiction Should Not Be Criminalized

The supply of illegal opioids should also be decimated, heroin in particular. Ilegal fentanyl should also be closely monitored by the government and by hospitals. Creating dependencies for these pharmaceuticals is very easy, but it is very difficult to cut the habit.

US government officials like Hillary Clinton have called heroin and meth addiction a quiet epidemic that must be nipped at the bud. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has shut down the notion that drug addiction is equal to ‘criminal activity’. Addiction is a kind of mental illness, and it should be treated as such. The history behind the spread of heroin has dark streaks, but the heights it has reached are affecting the entire community. Heroin addiction is starting to affect younger people, and while US law allows parents to bring them to treatment, they cannot force them to stay in treatment.

The history behind the spread of heroin has dark streaks, but the heights it has reached are affecting the entire community. Heroin addiction is starting to affect younger people, and while US law allows parents to bring them to treatment, they cannot be forced  to stay in treatment.

All of These Medications Cause Hard and Fast Addiction

Other prescription painkillers with opioids are also poorly controlled. Medications with components like hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxycontin should be controlled a lot more strictly. These medications are currently given away whenever patients suffer from basic physical pain, but these painkillers are highly addictive. Overdosing on these medications is very easy and impossible to reverse without a stomach pump.

Information is Key When it Comes to Painkillers and Other Drugs

Safe dosing should be everywhere. The more information people have the effects of increasing or lowering dosage of these drugs, the more apparent the risk will be. Heroin can kill people in minutes, and a lot of the time accidentally. Going over my a single cc can make users pass out and never come back. We have seen it in celebrity deaths like Corey Monteith and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Drug Addiction Will Not Be Stopped If An Agreement Isn’t Made

Giving young people information about drug addiction, about depression and about suicidal thoughts can help make a small but important change. Finding non-addictive alternatives would also be better. Plainly said, even medical marijuana has fewer chances of killing you as fast as these synthetic opioids and illegal drugs.

A little goes a long way, and with all of the people that have fallen victim to these kinds of addiction, it’s about time we see some change. Public figures like Russel Brand have taken microphones to voice their experiences going through and surviving abuse. Modern society needs this kind of positive reinforcement to help them realize that they can bounce back. There are too many lives being lost to addiction. Awareness is important, but developing care centers that specialize in this kind of treatment could bring a world of change.

Read: LSD is Way Healthier Than Medical Marijuana

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Painkillers Can Kill You Faster Than Cocaine, But Not as Fast as Heroin

Heroin Addicts Babies Are Born Earlier But Antidepressant Babies Are Born With Autism - http://clapway.com/2015/12/16/heres-why-heroin-addict-babies-should-never-be-a-trend-123/

New data from the New York State Department of Health shows that the number of babies born with heroin addictions is at an alarming level. In 2014 alone, 34 babies were born with some kind of opiate addiction in Broome County, which makes an 180% increase since 2009. And Broone County’s population is less than 200,000.

Heroin Still Poses A Great Danger to Our Community

When women use heroin while pregnant, babies are born with a quarter of a regular newborn’s weight. Some babies don’t make it through the pregnancy, and those that do suffer through addiction for months. These newborns go through extraordinary pain and withdrawal.

Health physicians have a single recommendation for women going through heroin addiction: prevent pregnancy at all costs. The use of contraceptives and birth control is the best thing that these women can do, because having children while being an addict is a cruel thing to do.

If A Pregnant Woman Can’t Avoid Pregnancy, She Should Get Treatment Immediately

If a woman with a heroin addiction is inevitably pregnant, then they should do their best to get help and get sober. Getting treatment can make a difference, even if it’s a small one. Pregnant women even get preference for methadone treatment, offered by united health services hospitals. While this doesn’t eliminate the risk of the baby suffering through withdrawal after being born, it is safer than using throughout the entire pregnancy.

Doctors call these pre-emptive measures ‘harm reduction’. While it cannot guarantee that the baby will have a good quality of life after being born, it can help. In fact, Broone County is pledging $260,000 into a program to give a facility eight to ten new beds for opiate-addicted mothers. These funds will also ensure that the mothers get proper case management, day care, treatment for the mothers. It would also cover any and every need that the baby could have. The county is devoted to giving safe and clean housing for recovering new mothers and their child.

Pregnancy and Drugs: What is the Effect of Prescription Drugs on Newborns

The conclusion of a new study reveals that the link between autism and anti-depressants is definitely threatening. Anick Berard, of the University of Montreal, surveyed data of 145,456 pregnancies. The data showed that while genetics and environment play a role in the incidence of autism, anti-depressants have weight in that conversation as well.

Dr. Berard expressed that taking anti-depressants during the second or trimester of pregnancy can double the risk of the child being diagnosed with autism by the time they become seven years old. If the mother takes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, the risk is especially high.

Depression Will Be the Second Leading Cause of Death by 2020

According to the WHO, depression will be the second highest cited cause of death by the year 2020. This means that anti-depressants may be further developed and become even more widely prescribed. It’s also possible that a strain is developed for use during and throughout pregnancy.

It’s not yet known if any anti-depressants currently in development will reduce the risks for autism in the children. The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, surely inspires further study into the connection between anti-depressants used during pregnancy and physical and mental disorders in children.

What About the Use of Marijuana During Pregnancy?

Studies haven’t revealed significant information on the effect of marijuana use by pregnant women on their children. Figures do show that pregnant women who use drugs have a higher chance of making marijuana their choice drug since it isn’t associated with as high health risks for the baby as other drugs.

However, when smoked, marijuana has an inevitable effect on the lungs. Smoking TCH exposes users to the ingestion of carbon monoxide and tar, which can remain in the lungs. The baby naturally depends on the mother for everything, from breathing to eating to merely existing. Even if the effect isn’t detrimental, it’s not entirely free of faults.

The use of marijuana during pregnancy has been under the eye of the scientific community since the 1960s, and besides obvious effects, there has been little to show negative effects of it on the children. That doesn’t mean it’s not free of risks.

Prenatal Exposure to Marijuana Can Cost Your Baby A Trip to the NICU

A study conducted in Australia took data from 420,000 live births and concluded that newborns that were exposed to pot prenatally had a higher risk for neonatal intensive care unit admission. The babies also had unnatural responses or behaviors during the newborn period, which suggests the chance of withdrawal or some kind of toxicity. Prenatally exposed children had a tendency to be more irritable, and less responsive to calming. They also had sleep cycle disturbances and a tendency to cry more.

Bottom Line: Don’t Drink Alcohol, Smoke Weed, Shoot Heroin or Do Coke While Pregnant

You’ve heard it before, and science backs it up. Alcohol can cause birth defects, physical, mental and behavioral, in new babies. Cocaine can cause lower birth weight and defects in height. Marijuana isn’t too dangerous, but it still poses a threat. Heroin is just bad news for newborns.

The best thing to do if one isn’t ready to go to treatment is to avoid pregnancy. If one really wants to start a family, then getting help should be the next step.

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Heroin Addicts Babies Are Born Earlier But Antidepressant Babies Are Born With Autism