Drug Facts
Cocaine Effects – Effects of Prolonged Cocaine Use
One of the most pernicious effects for those who become regular users of cocaine is that increasingly more of the drug is required to experience the high. Chronic cocaine users will crave it and continue using it even though it...
Treating Heroin Addiction
Beyond traditional treatment programs (see Treatment) that help heroin addicts quit altogether, three alternative methods exist. These less conventional treatments are less ambitious in their ultimate goal, recognizing the fact that the vast majority of heroin addicts who try traditional...
Opiate Effects
When used as actual medicine, a swallowed pill’s effects are felt within 25 minutes as the stomach and small intestines begins their digestion process and absorb the drug into the bloodstream. While some abusers of prescription opiates take the pills...
Marijuana’s Short & Long-Term Effects
Anything that is smoked takes between 7 to 10 seconds to reach the brain and is even faster than injecting a substance, which takes 15 to 30 seconds. The effects of smoking marijuana are felt within a few minutes, peak...