Substance addictions

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Substance addictions

Synthetic Drugs: Poisonings Multiply by 20

This summer, poisonings from synthetic drug use have multiplied by 20. This summer has left us with worrying news. According to what we have read in La Vanguardia, poisonings from synthetic drug use have multiplied by 20 at Hospital Clínic

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Substance addictions

What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)?

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and its physical and psychological characteristics. If we ask this question to AFASAF, an association of families affected by FAS based in Barcelona, they would tell us that the spectrum of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is

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Nearly half of detox treatments are for alcohol

Figures on the most frequent detox treatments, with alcohol being the most common. Of the 13,779 people who in 2015 began a rehabilitation therapy in Catalonia, 47% did so due to excessive alcohol consumption. The average age for treatment for

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Substance addictions

What is krokodil, the so-called cannibal drug?

The popular drug krokodil and its devastating effects. Desomorphine, poor man’s heroin, or simply the cannibal drug. All these names refer to the same drug. This substance has become popular in the media under the name krokodil.

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Substance addictions

The dangers of benzodiazepine abuse

Benzodiazepines and the dangers of addiction to them. Benzodiazepines (popularly known as pills; Diazepam is one of them) are psychotropic medications that act on the central nervous system, with sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, amnesic and muscle-relaxant effects. For this reason,

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