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This Chart From 1790 Shows the Dangers of Alcoholism
After the Revolutionary war, Americans were drinking staggering amounts of alcohol. Tastes were swiftly changing from ciders and beers, the preference of colonial times, to hard liquors from the...
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Visualizing Alcohol Use Infographic
This highly-colorful infographic, Visualizing Alcohol Use, explores the effects of alcohol in the blood. How much alcohol can your bloodstream handle? Take a look at the graphic to check out everything...
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How We Get Hooked: Infographic
Many people don’t understand why or how someone can become addicted to drugs. It’s often mistakenly assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles or willpower and that they could stop using drugs...
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How We Talk About Addiction
Here’s some remarkably cool charts on the history of the word “addiction” & the language surrounding the word. Linguists will delight at these stunning graphs, charting the history of “addiction”...
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The Invisible Harm of Substance Abuse
They account for a relatively small share of the world’s premature deaths—but they are the biggest drivers of disability. Mental disorders and drug and alcohol abuse account for 7.4% of...
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The Jobs That Make You Drink
Drug and alcohol abuse costs the U.S. economy billions of dollars in lost productivity each year. New government data released this month can now tell us exactly which industries’ employees drink the...
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Infographic: Meth Effects
How does meth work in the brain? The basic workings of methamphetamine’s psychoactive action in the central nervous system are as follows: 1. Meth disrupts the dopamine neurotransmitter system. 2....
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Tracking Drug Use on Instagram
Drugabuse.com unveiled the results of a study into drug use at music festivals. By tracking drug references made in Instagram posts from 15 different festivals, they analyzed 3,622,365 posts for...
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Drunk Like Don Draper
There’s no doubt that Don Draper likes a drink every now and again…and again…and again. The battle with alcoholism is the character’s main overarching problem. Alcoholism is often a sign of other...
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The First Worldwide Report on Addiction
We’ve always known that people around the world smoke, drink and use illegal drugs. But we’ve never known just how much people abuse substances, nor have we known whether illegal or legal drugs do more...
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Addiction Is a Disease – Infographic
Addiction to drugs and alcohol affect millions of people and their families every year. Yet, they often go undiagnosed by healthcare professionals. This results in an estimated annual combined...
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3 Charts Showing How Bad Our Heroin Problem Has Become
Heroin use is on the rise in the United States. Deaths involving heroin have quadrupled since 2000. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that heroin use is “increasing...
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How Many Years Will Your Addiction Cost You?
It’s hard to find something that destroys life (social & physical) faster than addiction. While some substances provide quick highs, they also rapidly waste your body and time. The following...
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The 10 Jobs with the Highest Rate of Drug Abuse
This infographic shows the relative rates of drug abuse, according to professions. These 10 career categories—from business, to the arts, to agriculture—have the highest rates of drug use, according to...
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Popping Pills: Prescription Drug Abuse Infographic
The misuse and abuse of prescription medications in the United States is on the rise. For a country with just 5% of the world’s population, we consume our share of medications…and then some—a full...
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The Booziest States of America
A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows some pretty disturbing numbers when it comes to binge drinking in the United States. Nationwide, the data shows that one in six...
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The Benefits of Exercise in Addiction Recovery
Recovery is a lifelong endeavor. Forming positive habits — such as exercise — is a vital part of healing your body and mind. This infographic will help you work it. If you or someone you know is...
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The 5 Stages of Change
The 5 Stages of Change — Addiction will take control of a person’s life in many unhealthy ways. But once sufficiently motivated, people can and do change. It may not happen overnight. Rather, change...
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What Is Recovery?
Who can better explain what recovery actually is (and how to achieve it) than someone who is actually in recovery? This infographic represents thousands of people in recovery. The data is culled from a...
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Fighting the Stigma of Addiction
Stigma is one of the meanest and most difficult aspects of addiction because it makes it harder for people to get the help they need and deserve. Society imposes stigma – and its damage – on addicts...
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