Although the correlation between child abuse and substance abuse in adulthood has been the subject of multiple studies, there remain methodological, measurement, and conceptual issues in conducting research. By using empirically collected data and statistical analyses to analyse this data, researchers have come to agreement that even though there may...

You have probably heard of this drug before or have seen it on certain television shows. For me, I’ve mostly learned about meth through watching the show Breaking Bad, which takes you inside the meth industry as well as how it is made. While I’m sure not everything on this...

Substance abuse prevention efforts date back to the 1960s and have primarily targeted adolescents throughout the ensuing years. Until the 1980s most programs were mainly informational and did not allow for interactions between presenters, perhaps mainly classroom teachers, and students (Anthony, Jenson & Howard, 2015). Another approach that had gained...

Opioid Related Disorders refer to physical and mental health conditions associated with the use of opioids. Opioids make up the class of prescription medicines and illegal drugs that are used for pain relief. The pain relief affect is achieved through binding the opioid receptors in human nervous system, thus, lowering...

The results of research into the causes and effects of addiction are rarely transformed into clinically applied practices. While advances have been made in the development of opioid antagonists and agonists, much of the protocol used in addiction medicine is more policy-oriented than the results of experimental studies (Babor. Boca...