Children with high IQs more likely to use drugs as teens, adults

LOS ANGELES — Children with high IQs are more likely to use marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines and other illicit drugs as teenagers and adults, according to new data on nearly 8,000 British men and women who were tracked for more than three decades.

Researchers from Cardiff University and University College London became interested in the question after other studies found that kids who scored high on intelligence tests were more likely than their peers to become heavy drinkers and alcoholics when they grew up. They found one study from the U.S. that suggested high-IQ children were at greater risk of experimenting with drugs only during their teen years, but the study participants were not representative of American kids as a whole (most were African-Americans More

Figured it was time for another update. It’s been three months since I left my drug addicted husband More

"Maging sa pagkabuhay na mag-uli ay malaki ang pagkakaiba ng kaanib sa Iglesia at ng hindi kaanib."

PINANINIWALAAN NG MARAMI na ang lahat ng relihiyon ay magkakapareho lamang More

Reading this may cause your heart pound. If you can't stand reading  her story you may discontinue, but please join Junko Furuta's group on facebook made in her honor. you can type in her name on facebook search.

The true story of Junko Furuta;

This is a true story that happened in Japan in 1988.

A 17 year old girl named Furuta Junko, was kidnapped and then tortured by 4 boys with very unimaginable way and finally death after 44 days.

 For you who can`t stand read something that is so cruel, don’t read this. Please join the Facebook Group, that was made in her honor.

The crime:

In November of 1988, Boy A (18), Boy B (Jo Kamisaku, 17; Kamisaku was a new family name he took after being released from prison), Boy C (16) and Boy D (17) from Tokyo abducted Furuta, a second year high school (grade 11) student from Saitama Prefecture in Misato, for 44 days. They kept her captive in the house owned by the parents of Boy C.

To forestall a manhunt, Boy A coerced Furuta into calling her own parents and telling them that she had run away from home, but was with “a friend” and was not in danger. He also browbeat her into posing as one of the boys’ girlfriends when the parents of the house where she was held were around, but when it became clear that the parents would not call the police, he dropped this pretext.

Furuta tried to escape several times, begging the parents of Boy C more than once to help her, but they did nothing, apparently out of fear that Boy A would hurt them. Boy A was at the time a low-level yakuza leader and had bragged that he could use his connections to kill anyone who interfered.

According to their statements at their trial, the four of them raped her, beat her, introduced foreign objects including an iron rod into her vagina, made her drink her own urine and wasfed cockroaches, inserted fireworks into her anus, and set them off, forced Furuta tomasturbate, cut her nipple with pliers, dropped dumbbells onto her stomach, and burned her with cigarettes and lighters. (One of the burnings was punishment for attempting to call the police.)

At one point her injuries were so severe that according to one of the boys it took more than an hour for her to crawl downstairs to use the bathroom. They also related that “possibly a hundred different people” knew that Furuta had been imprisoned there, but it is not clear if this means they visited the house at different More

The teenage years are the most adventurous, curious; yet dangerous years of our lives. These are the years when we stretch the parental boundaries, and attempt to figure-out the fuss behind the forbidden. Sex, drugs, sleepovers, late night parties and prom nights are just a few things that will become a part of your teen’s life.

Disturbingly so, alcoholism is also one of the many ‘new’ things many teens will take part, as it allows them to unite with others. So much to the extent that alcohol is the most frequently used stimulant by teenagers and almost 8% of teens say that they've had a minimum of 5 drinks or more in one single sitting. While some teens have the sense to enjoy themselves at a party and leave it at that; many others are getting dangerously addicted to the bottle. Teenage alcoholism is now a serious problem faced by many concerned parents.

Why is alcohol bad for teenagers and why do they do it

Although alcohol isn’t good for anyone, teens in particular are affected very easily. Alcohol has an major impact on one’s concentration abilities; making most teens fare badly at school or college. Teens that drink heavily are more likely to experiment with unsafe sex and drugs like marijuana and cocaine, and even contemplate or attempt suicide. Even more disturbing is the fact that almost every year at least 2000 youngsters below the age of 21 die in car crashes and accidents due to underage drinking.

So why would a teenager resort to alcohol in spite of parental advice or even after being aware of the risks? The answer lies in what motivates the teenager to drink. In families, where either or both parents are alcoholics, the children will most certainly take after them since this is the behavior More

Find out what drug was used in this cartoon for it to get banned in 1934...

How sad is this story?

CHICAGO (AP) — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth.

The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction to powerful prescription painkillers.

Disturbing new research says the number of U.S. babies born with signs of opiate drug withdrawal has tripled in a decade because of a surge in pregnant women's use of legal and illegal narcotics, including Vicodin, OxyContin and heroin, researchers say. It is the first national study of the problem.

The number of newborns with withdrawal symptoms increased from a little more than 1 per 1,000 babies sent home from the hospital in 2000 to more than 3 per 1,000 in 2009, the study found. More than 13,000 U.S. infants were affected in 2009, the researchers estimated.

The newborns include babies like Savannah, whose mother stopped abusing painkillers and switched to prescription methadone early in pregnancy, and those whose mothers are still abusing legal or illegal drugs.

Weaning infants from these drugs can take weeks or months and often requires a lengthy stay in intensive care units. Hospital charges for treating these newborns soared from $190 million to $720 million between 2000 and 2009, the study found.

“My Heart Beats A Little Faster” (Poem/Song): Written By Viola Pressley

My heart beats a little faster, just because.
My heart beats faster than it ever has before,
now that I have your love,
now that I’ve captured the heart of the one I’ve wanted for so long,
the one that I adore.

It’s all because of you and the wonderful things you do.
It’s a sure thing, I’m in love.

My heart beats a little faster each and every time I look into your eyes.
Oh how they melt my heart and give me a sense of peace.
Oh how they soothe my soul and make me feel at ease.
They make me never More

Summertime is time for fun in the water, and that can result in injury or death by drowning.  In the USA, an average of 10 people die from drowning every day. Drowning is the cause in almost a third of deaths among toddlers (age 1-4).  According to the American Association of Pediatrics, the location in which drowning most often occurs varies with the age of the child.  Infants are most likely to drown in bathtubs; for toddlers, swimming pools; and for older children, freshwater lakes and rivers are most likely. More