Ayahuasca - truths and myths
Ayahuasca offers relaxation and insight into areas of our consciousness that are not known to us. Colourful adverts offering new sensations encourage people to try it. Ayahuasca - increasingly...
How do legal highs work?
Legal highs, or designer drugs, are a colloquial term for substances with powerful psychoactive effects. They can be of natural or synthetic origin. More and more people are using them, but they do...
An epidemic of legal highs! Side effects associated with their use
We hear more and more about legal highs every day. There is even talk of an after-dose epidemic in Poland. These are drugs, commonly known as "collector's items", which are particularly dangerous to...
After-drugs
Every day the number of people who have died as a result of poisoning by legal highs is increasing. These are mostly very young people.
How do computer games affect children?
Scientific studies and observations by psychologists show that children are spending more and more time on the computer. Computer games are their most frequent entertainment choice. For many children...
Anorexia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Anorexia nervosa, or mental anorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder affecting an increasing number of young people. The initial age of onset is decreasing - it happens that children are affected, as...
Effects of alcohol on behavioural changes
Scientific studies carried out to date, as well as the observations of patients, show that alcohol changes a person's behaviour to a great extent. Under the influence of alcohol, people's mood...
Brain damage after drug use
Incidental exposure to certain drugs can cause permanent damage to certain brain structures responsible for, among other things, learning and memory processes, emotions and motivation. A one-off...
Toxicology of psychoactive substance addiction
The latest statistics on drug addiction show that it is not only people of school age who are most at risk of using substances harmful to the central nervous system. It has been shown that also...
Effects of alcohol on the nervous system, what is alcoholic dementia?
In the old days, it was thought that ethyl alcohol, helped with every ailment, was also helpful in the process of preserving food and cereals. Today, these views have changed. It is known that...
Addictive sport?
In a healthy body, a healthy spirit! It's a saying that everyone is familiar with from an early age. But can sport be addictive?
Alcohol and diabetes
Alcohol inhibits gluconeogenesis, the liver's ability to produce glucose. It is true that the liver can still release glucose in the form of glycogen, but when this supply is depleted then...
Codeine addiction
Addiction is defined as a strong need to perform certain actions, movements, gestures, to consume specific foods or drugs. It is a very broad concept and, importantly, nowadays one can become...
Computer game addiction
Computergame addiction, like computer and Internet addiction, is classified as a disease. Research into this type of addiction is ongoing. It can be defined as the need to play games using a...
Sex addiction
Sex addiction is categorised as a disease that requires treatment. It can have a very damaging effect on our health, relationships, school, work and relationships at home. Controlling the compulsion...
Shopping addiction
Shopping addiction is the need or even the necessity to make purchases. This tendency was only described in the 20th century. Very often, the person suffering from it buys unnecessary, unplanned...
Dependence on another person
Dependence on another/another person is a disease, defined as the loss of one's own independence, one's own views to another person. It is a type of emotional dependence. This disease makes it...
Addiction to electronic devices
Addiction to electronic devices is a disease that requires treatment, just like other addictions. Electronic devices of various kinds (computers, ipads, mobile phones, tablets, laptops, PM3 players)...
Addictive drugs - how to recognise if a child has used them?
Legal highs are defined as a variety of psychoactive substances that cause a number of changes in a person's normal behaviour, their reactions to different situations, their perception of reality and...
What is pharmacotherapy for addiction?
Psychoactive substance use is a cause of mental health problems and behavioural disorders. It is defined as a set of physiological, behavioural and cognitive phenomena dominated by the intake of a...
