Addiction
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Marijuana Myths and Facts
Popular culture and the media actively perpetuate many myths about marijuana addiction. Unwinding at the end of a day by smoking a joint just to chill with your friends is widely considered harmless. After all, marijuana is natural - it is not really a chemical drug, is it? You cannot get addicted to something natural...or can you? Today, marijuana has become the world's most popular casual use drug. According to the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) report, there were more than 22.2 million users in the past month. Furthermore, 4.176 million people were recorded as being addicted to marijuana in America alone.
Miami Hit Hard By Heroin
These days Miami, Florida is filled with far more than the sound of the beach, music coming from Little Havana and the sound of car horns honking at the never ending traffic. In fact, it's filled with the sound of tourniquets being snapped around the arms of addicts while they fill their needles with heroin.
Rising Heroin Abuse in Tampa
At present, the entire nation is being swept by a heroin epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of heroin-related deaths has quadrupled in the last decade. Having said that, it will probably come as no surprise that yet another city in the nation is battle a heroin epidemic. Today we head back to sunny Florida to take a trip down the slippery heroin laced slope that many residents of Tampa are trying to navigate.
‘Cuddlers’ Help Heroin Addicted Babies
Can you think of a day recently when you haven't read or heard a story about someone, somewhere becoming addicted to heroin? Nope, me either. That's because our country has a very real and very dangerous heroin epidemic that is taking over the lives of the so many from older adults to newborn babies.