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"Feeling really strange like everything is fake" is not an unusual psychological symptom. Typically termed "depersonalization," it is almost as common as anxiety and depression. Depersonalization is a sense that your emotions, your feelings and physical sensations, don't belong to you. You might

Withdrawal from opioid pain medications or illicit drugs is an unpleasant and frightening experience, and is particularly upsetting for family members and friends who are often called upon to help the addicted person through this crisis and who very much want him to get and stay clean, but who may

Addiction to prescription pain medications is one of the public health problems today, in part because there have been great advances in pain treatment that have made powerful pain medications available to many people who were previously incapacitated by pain. Unfortunately, most of these highly

You are not alone in trying to deal with continuing drug use during pregnancy, and it is appropriate to be concerned about both the effects of drugs on the baby and the effects that stopping the drugs and risking withdrawal might have on the pregnancy. The safest course is to get off the pain

Anxiety that comes on when alcohol is consumed may be an indication of alcoholism, depending upon what other problems the use of alcohol causes. It is also seen in people who are not alcoholics however, as part of a new class of disorders that was recognized this past year in the 5th revision of

Marijuana addiction is not as common as addiction to many other substances, but it does occur and can be a significant problem. The addiction potential for cannabis is less than that of heroin, cocaine, or alcohol, and apparently not as great as tobacco or caffeine. About 9 per cent of regular

Addiction to prescription pain medications and street drugs such as heroin is one of the greatest health-related problems our society faces, and one of the greatest difficulties in dealing with that problem is the withdrawal that most people experience when they abruptly stop taking opioid drugs

Nicotine is an addictive substance that comes from tobacco leaves, which have been dried to make cigarettes and other tobacco products. Because of the many negative health effects associated with nicotine and other toxic substances obtained from tobacco smoking, millions of people around the world

When you consume alcohol, it directly enters the blood stream and produces its multiple side effects. Some of its short term effects include slurring of speech, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, distorted vision, impaired judgment and decreased co-ordination. It acts as a depressor of the central