Category: Heroin Addiction

A recent report in the British newspaper The Daily Mail has found that drug deaths related to cocaine and ecstasy are up a whopping 1200% since 1993. The study detailed several interesting pieces of information that shed light into the demographic trends of drug abuse [...]

More and more young people are using prescription painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin as a recreational drug. They use these painkillers for their euphoric effects and obtain them by any all means necessary. The problem is that buying prescription medications online, or from a [...]

Many people believe that the United States is home to worst drug problem in the world. And while images from the evening news all over America would certainly lead one to that assumption, there are actually much more severe addiction and trafficking situation found elsewhere [...]

It has been almost fifteen years since New York police detectives had to deal with China Cat – a powerful heroin blend that ravaged the world’s largest city in the late summer of 1994. The 13 accidental overdose deaths that China Cat caused in a [...]

Five ways that heroin use can kill you Of all the drugs in the world, heroin remains one of the most dangerous. And while taking any drug to excess open the doors for a variety of serious health problems, heroin features several particularly devastating effects [...]

Irish youth using heroin at a shockingly young age The Irish Examiner is reporting that there is a growing heroin addiction problem among children as young as 12 years old. The shocking report is based on the findings of Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, that [...]

Heroin claims the life of star baseball player Michael Hutts was not a young man prone to trouble. On the contrary, he was a Dean’s List student at Georgia Tech and a star pitcher on the university’s varsity baseball team. So when his roommate opened [...]