Drug Abuse

Synthetic marijuana, a drug known by many names including Spice, K2 and Blaze, has been growing in popularity in recent years for many reasons. There’s no need to visit a street corner drug dealer to find these drugs because despite a 2012 federal ban on five of its key chemical ingredients, synthetic pot manufacturers have Read more »

Arrests and incidents linked to drug use, including accidental overdoses, continue to keep law enforcement officials busy throughout the United States as they fight what seems to be an uphill battle. The United States Sentencing Commission handled 80,035 cases during the 2013 fiscal year, and 22,215 of those cases involved drug trafficking. In January, the Read more »

Synthetic marijuana use is on the rise in Atlanta. Synthetic marijuana goes by many names. It may be called spice, skunk, K2 or a host of other names, but the substance is known among users because it produces a powerful high. Most synthetic pot users smoke the substance to gain its psychoactive effects. It used Read more »

As states have moved toward legalizing marijuana, the question has been raised about driving under the influence. With alcohol, a police officer can perform a simple test to determine how much alcohol is in the person’s system. Blood alcohol level is generally a very good indicator of impairment. With marijuana, the level of THC (the Read more »

Mixing prescription medication can cause dangerous and sometimes lethal results to occur. One of the most fatal drug combinations that an individual can take is combining pain pills with Benzodiazopines. Reports have shown that among the overdose deaths that have involved opioids, the most common prescription medications that were taken along with pain pills were Read more »

When business owners look for potential employees, they should generally be looking for individuals who are capable, fast learners who will eventually be worth more to the company than their initial time and training investment. With those criteria in mind, it becomes fairly obvious that drug abuse would impede an employee from reaching their true Read more »

Marijuana use was on a general decline in the United States for several years, but the use of this drug started to increase once again around 2007. The National Institutes of Health suggests that many of the newest pot smokers are young and around their teenage years. This creates significant concern for anyone who has Read more »