Narconon drug rehab and other Atlanta charity groups are assisting an orphanage in Honduras on their mission to help orphan children who live on the streets. Narconon New Life Detoxification Program is dedicated to help addicted street orphans in Honduras.
Narconon of Georgia was founded in 1967. Since then its mission has included drug education and [...]

A new study based on the Finnish Master thesis says that Internet addiction can easily develop to people who have hard time establishing real life social relationships and are perhaps suffering from depression.
The study is based on almost nine thousand participants, and it was made as an online survey. It is estimated that currently about [...]

Judge Peter Moss has given a hard criticism against the drug rehabilitation for criminal offenders. He is stating that less than half of the offenders complete the courses they are given, and can’t think of almost any drug rehab programs that have been successful for them.

Moss has a suggestion that he thinks would be the [...]

The number of internet users in China is the World’s largest. It is currently 290 millions and the number is increasing all the time. Seventy percent of them are people under 30 years old, and according to a recent study Chinese spend 44 percent of their free time in the internet.
In a military base outside [...]

Every year more than 170 000 women in U.S. is died due to smoking related diseases. According to recent studies nicotine addiction is more dangerous for women than for men. Women have a larger set of complications that smoking can affect.

Women for example posses a risk to have certain cancers and pregnancy and fertility [...]

Gambling addiction can be a strain for relationships and interfere with responsibilities at home and work. After all it most probably leads to a financial catastrophe. After online gambling was introduced the problem of gambling addiction has risen remarkably.
Recently the government of an European country, Norway, has passed a bill for banning online gambling due [...]

Colleges have started to ban energy drinks which contain large amounts of caffeine due to exessive use of students. Recently the college of West Anglia has removed energy drinks from their shops and vending machines.
The popularity of energy drinks such as Red Bull or Relentless has risen exploding during students who use them to boost [...]

In a recently released survey it is found out that teens are abusing prescription medication more than any other drug. The report states that even younger children are usign prescriptions drugs to “get high” or to “self-medicate.”
Rowan-Salisbury School System reports they are finding an increasing amount of students, misusing and selling prescription medication to their [...]

China has the worlds largest online community with 253 million users. Especially gaming in internet cafés has become extremely popular among young chinese men. Now China may become the first country in the world which classifies internet addiction as a clinical disorder.
Beijing’s Health Ministry is expected to adopt a new manual on internet addiction next [...]

Miracles Inc. - organization providing services to treat and prevent substance abuse - is planning to sponsor a parade to honor recovering addicts as part of the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. The parade will consist of people in recovery, their families and community social service providers who help battle substance abuse.
The parade [...]