Abuse of Bath Salts Growing Problem, Expert Weighs In on New Danger

Abuse of Bath Salts Growing Problem, Expert Weighs In on New Danger
Addiction to bath salts is a growing problem. The effects of bath salts used inappropriately despite their warning labels when smoked or taken orally is the same as cocaine or meth. Bath salts, sold under innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, and Vanilla Sky are an emerging menace and a danger to young people from South Florida to California.The effects of the bath salt powders are as…
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Painkillers crisis in Ky.
Prescription drug abuse is killing Kentuckians at record levels, with deaths more than doubling in the past decade to nearly 1,000 a year. Meanwhile, the money to fight the epidemic is drying up.
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Exploring Memory Training As A Strategy For Addiction Treatment
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute faculty member leads study resulting in new insight on rehabilitating brain function in addicts People with addictions to stimulants tend to choose instant gratification or a smaller but sooner reward over a future benefit, even if the future reward is greater. Reduced value of a future reward, called “delay discounting” by neuroscientists, is the major …
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