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People experiment with drugs to find out how it feels to get high. Find out by reading these articles instead.

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Delusions -- More Than Just a Different Point of View

Thursday January 26, 2012

Delusions are a tricky subject for many people to get their heads around. How can a doctor figure out whether someone's beliefs are true or not, and what does it matter if they are incorrect anyway? Read More...

Is Your New Year's Resolution Still Going Strong?

Sunday January 22, 2012

It's three weeks into January -- by now, many of us who made New Year's Resolutions will have had at least one relapse Read More...

Losing Touch With Reality

Thursday January 19, 2012

Often when people use drugs, they want to change their perception of reality. They want the world to seem like a simpler, happier place, for reality to be less scary or intimidating, or to make life more interesting and fun. Read More...

Bad Ecstasy Alert!

Sunday January 15, 2012

The 24 Hours newspaper reported recently that a recent spate of deaths of young ecstasy users has been linked to a contaminant called PMMA -- and at least 16 more ecstasy-related deaths are currently under coronor's review to identify whether PMMA was present. Read More...

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