The Basketball Diaries – the Effects of Drugs


 

The Basketball Diaries – The Effects of Drugs – After watching this film, I was quite struct by Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance. I decided to make a music video about the deterioration of Jim’s life throughout the film.

 

Methamphetamine withdrawal may lead to brain-related concerns for recovering

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“When people treat drug addicts, they need to know that during withdrawal, people in recovery may experience cognitive consequences,” said Habibeh Khoshbouei, an associate professor of neuroscience and psychiatry in the UF College of Medicine.
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Afghanistan's growing number of child drug addicts

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The majority of the families don't know about the side-effects of opium. They don't understand that if they give drugs to their children, they are also killing them at the same time,” he said. “The proportion of children addicted has increased because …
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How a patch to banish back pain left me as wretched as a heroin addict

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The rise is partly due to a more limited choice of pain-killing drugs following research that highlighted the side-effects of long-term use of some anti-inflammatory drugs including Vioxx, says Dr Martin Johnson, a pain expert from the Royal College Of …
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