Psychedelic Drug Banned In The U.S. May Help Battle Addiction
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Addicted to food, alcohol, cigarettes, sex, or painkillers?
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Addicted to food, alcohol, cigarettes, sex, or painkillers?
At the age of 12, Jay was smoking cigarettes and weed; by 16, he was snorting coke; two years later he was taking heroin and crack – but he says by the time he left university he was a “functional drug addict”, able to get up in the morning, put a suit on, travel from his parents’ home in north London to his job as a banker in the City.
Gwyneth Paltrow has predicted the next big health trend will be psychedelics.
With the American death toll from opioid overdoses topping 42,000 a year, we hear story after story of families doing everything they can to save their sons and daughters, and failing.
Every new government administration has its fair share of issues inherited from predecessors. In the US it is no different.
America’s worsening opioid epidemic is prompting calls for a serious look at a form of therapy some people say helped them overcome their addiction when all else failed.
As America's opioid and heroin crisis rages, some struggling with addiction are turning to a drug illegal in the US. Jonathan Levinson went to one clinic offering the treatment in Mexico.
I HAVE been struggling with an addiction to opiates for the past three years. It started with prescription painkillers and progressed to full-blown heroin dependence.