addicts
What's It Like to Be an Internet-Famous Stoner?
Stephen Payne is a 45-year-old guy from Canada who's become so famous for doing bong rips and dabs that he's sponsored by a weed company and has more than 90,000 YouTube subscribers.
The World's Toughest Rehab Is a Monastery in Thailand
Tham Krabok, Thailand's monastic equivalent to the Betty Ford Clinic, helps people overcome their addictions by living like monks and drinking a "cleansing" brown liquid that makes them vomit excessively each day.
This Is What It's Like Being Addicted to Laxatives
Laxative abuse is a common manifestation of eating disorders that we rarely talk about. But with the pills so easy to buy and become addicted to, and increasing numbers of young people using them, it's about time we started.
A German City Is Paying Its Alcoholics in Beer to Clean the Streets
On October 1, the German city of Essen will launch a program that incentivizes the homeless, addicts, and alcoholics with beer and cigarettes in exchange for their aid in cleaning the city square.
The Lonely World of a British Codeine Addict
Codeine addiction in the UK is slightly less raucous than the lean-sipping lives of Dirty South rappers.
We Asked Drug Addicts to Rate the Music at Copenhagen Central
We asked a couple of them to rate what they are being forced to listen to.
Bucharest Is Not a Good Place to Be a Heroin Addict
Unless you're into police brutality and an enforced lack of medical attention.
The BC Supreme Court Has Ordered Health Canada to Let Addicts Access Prescription Heroin
Last Thursday, the BC Supreme Court ordered Health Canada to stop obstructing prescription heroin for a group of entrenched drug users. This step furthers the legal battle to make access to heroin lawful treatment for qualified patients.
New Zealand Suddenly Made Synthetic Drugs Illegal
Now a bunch of addicts are going to have to cope with withdrawal.
Only in the Netherlands Do Addicts Complain About Free Government Heroin
Using free heroin has now become so easy, addicts are beginning to feel like society has given up on them.
The Man Who Wants to Cure Your Internet Addiction
Various scientists, experts, and journalists have spent the past few years debating whether internet addiction is a real condition that needs legitimate treatment centers or is just a modern urban legend. Patrik Wincent, licensed therapist and founder...
Doctors in Canada Can No Longer Prescribe Heroin
Back in September, doctors in British Columbia won approval from Health Canada to prescribe diacetylmorphine—the active ingredient in heroin—to 20 hardcore addicts in Vancouver. That decision has just been overturned by Health Minister Rona Ambrose.