Interventions

Heroin is a highly addictive drug derived from morphine, which is obtained from the opium poppy. It is a depressant that affects the brain’s pleasure systems andinterferes with the brain’s ability to recognize pain. Thus, it is used as pain killer or as a recreational drug. Moreover, it has an extremely high potential for abuse.

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The chemical cocaine hydrochloride is commonly known as crack. There are users who chemically process cocaine in order to take away the hydrochloride. This procedure is called “freebasing” and makes the drug more stronger. “Crack” is a concrete form of freebased cocaine. It is named “crack” because it snaps and cracks when heated and smoked. Since crack is a ready form of freebased cocaine, the user does not have to be exposed to the explosive chemicals associated with freebasing. Crack is most often packaged in plastic bags and sold in small quantities, usually 300-500mg or enough for two to three inhalations.

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

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Public Health Alert about Cocaine or Crack Use

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For most, sex addiction and love addiction seems impossible. But there is such a phenomenon. It is not just merely crazily stalking a person you especially like. It is an illness, probably a mental illness that entails compulsivity when it comes to sexual activities and having various partners, and being fond of casual sex and self gratification. Sex and love addiction is a progressive illness which cannot be cured but which, like many illnesses, can be arrested. It may take several forms—including, but not limited to a compulsive need for sex, extreme dependency on one or many people, or a chronic worry with romance, intrigue, or fantasy, an obsessive compulsive pattern, either sexual or emotional, or both, exists in which relationships or sexual activities have become increasingly destructive to career, family and sense of self-respect. Sex addiction and love addiction, if left unchecked, always gets worse.

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