Change Your Mind

Recovery Thought of the Day for May 15.

What is it like to be addicted to heroin? What is life like for a heroin addict?

Pictured here are the distinctive leaves of a growing marijuana plant before it is harvested and processed.

Hallucinogens are drugs that cause hallucinations - profound distortions in a person's perceptions of reality.

For some people, MDMA can be addictive.

A study at the University of Teesside in the United Kingdom finds that heavy alcohol consumption has a negative impact on day-to-day memory.

Withdrawal is the variety of symptoms that occur after use of some addictive drugs is reduced or stopped.

The ingredients used to make methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories are generally household products that by themselves present little danger, but when combined can have serious toxic and explosive effects.

Use of marijuana has adverse health, safety, social, academic, economic, and behavioral consequences -- and children are the most vulnerable to its damaging effects.

Slang terms for drugs change quickly, and they vary from one part of the country to another.