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Cocaine Using Senior Citizen
This is crazy but my dad is using cocaine again. He is 67 and a grandfather. He has had addiction issues in the past so this is not just out of the blue or anything. I cannot find much information on cocaines affects on the brains of senior citizens (I guess my dad is kind of unique). Is cocaine going to be worse for my dad than it would be for a younger person because of his age? I am worried that because of his age his starting to use drugs again is going to push him into early senility.
Read answer →Electronic Cigarettes
Are electronic cigarettes effective as a way to quit smoking for good? Or are you just as addicted to the e cigs, but they are just not as harmful..but more expensive? Is there good long time research that shows that e cigs are safe over the long terms, such as if you used them for 40 years or a lifetime, like people do with cigarettes.
Read answer →Stop Booze, Start Weed????
Is marijuana bad for high blood pressure? I am 150 over 98 at my latest check up and my doctor has ordered me to stop drinking. I am having more trouble with this than I thought I would. I used to smoke marijuana years ago but gave it up when I got married and kind of grew out of it. Now I am thinking about searching to find some as a substitute for the alcohol. Marijuana is medicine, true? So is it OK for high blood pressure? I guess it’s ok as long as it doesn’t make it worse when I combine it with a lot of other changes I am supposed to make, like dietary and exercise changes. I don’t want to take medicine so my doctor said to try making lifestyle changes and we’d revisit in 3 months to see what happened.
Read answer →Waiting Won't Make You Feel Better
I am at day 52 of no cannabis. I was a 17 year daily smoker so 52 days is cause for celebration. Unfortunately, the last thing I feel like doing is celebrating. Actually I feel down in the dumps, pretty much how I have felt ever since I decided to quit. I did a lot of reading before I got started so I was expecting withdrawal symptoms and I know my brain needs time to heal but honestly this is getting ridiculous. I am thinking about smokimng again just to feel something good again but I really don’t want to do that if I am just around the corner from feeling better again and I would undo all of my hard work so far. I feel stuck and not sure what to do. Is a 50 day + depression after such a long cannabis habit within the realm of normal? Should I keep waiting or what?
Read answer →Bad Ass Weed
I am old enough that I should have known better. I am a many decades pot smoker. I don’t drink, smoke cigarettes or use any other drug. I know pot pretty well and it agrees with me. My niece came to stay with me this weekend and last night she asked if I wanted to smoke. She knows I smoke. She did not tell me it was not normal pot when she pulled out a joint. I smoked and by the 4th or 5th pass my heart started pounding and I had to excuse myself to go to the bathroom because I thought I was going to throw up. Once in there things got really scary and I thought I was dying and having a heart attack. It was terrifying and it was combined with the most horrible empty depression feeling I have ever experienced in my life. I could kill her for not telling me. Since then I have had 2 similar panic attacks but not as strong. Is there anything I can do know to get this out of my body faster and make the panic go away?
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