Great Books about Drug Addiction

The authors of these books have helped to educate people on the possible dangers of substance abuse and the damage it can cause with their experiences.

1. The Basketball Diaries (Jim Carroll, Fiction), Carroll's autobiography about growing up with a heroin addiction in 1970's New York City is considered as one of the most terrifying review of hopelessness experienced by young addicts. The story also explained how a strict environment and conflict-filled home life could lead to drug addiction.
2. A Million Little Pieces (James Fry, Memoir/Fiction), initially when author Fry published many fake details of his terrifying experiences, everyone felt that the author had little chances left. But later, research into his story revealed that most of his story was true depicting lifelong battle with drug addiction.
3. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through his Son's Meth Addiction, A honest book about a father's struggle with his son who is addicted to crystal meth. It is considered as an important reading for a parent whose child is addicted to substance.
4. Go Ask Alice (Anonymous, Memoir) Even today it is considered as classic young-adult literature, which is a fictionalized memoir written in 1971 that explains story of a young teenage girl who becomes addicted to drugs. This book is used for many years as drug awareness publicity as it shows the rapid journey of a person from experimentation to full-length addiction.
5. Junkie/Junky (William S. Burroughs, Memoir), It is a 1953 masterpiece, which is popular even today for the complete description of the day-to-day life of a heroin addict. Burroughs used simple prose to explain the ups and downs of heroin addiction.

Each of the books above has casted an impact on society.

What is Sedation Dentistry?

Sedation dentistry is one that will relax and calm the patients who have pain during the dental procedures. It is useful for people having fear of visiting the dentist. In this dentistry, dentists use some medication on patients during surgeries to make them relax and comfortable because the surgery involves a lot of things to be done by the dentist which may result in a lot of pain to the patients.

Because of fear or anxiety so many patients do not want to visit the dentist despite having dental problems. This may result in severe dental problems which can be very expensive and painful later to treat.

Dentists will calm the patients during surgeries by giving a kind of drugs called sedatives that are used to make unconscious the concerned parts of the body which are required during the surgery so that the dentist can perform the surgery with in a single sitting and in a relaxed way.

Thus, we can say that sedation dentistry can be useful for the patients who feel or suffer pain and  nervousness while visiting dentist or during dental procedure.

Health Risks of gardening

There are different health risks related with gardening, ranging from physical overexertion (over exercise) and sunburn to very serious injuries caused dues to inappropriate use or maintenance of power equipment.

Power Tools and Equipment

• There is a possibility of occurrence of injury when a lawnmower slips or turns upside down on a slope or wet grass, from rocks and debris, or from clearing blocked blades when a power mower is running.
• Electric shock is a possible danger that occurs many times when operating tools with eroded cords or in wet conditions.
• Due to excessive noise produced by power garden equipment, gradual permanent hearing loss or irritation can occur.

Overexertion
Muscle strain, back injuries, and burns can occur when moving a more weight than body can manage, bending, and inappropriate use of garden tools. Performing one task for too long can cause repetitive strain injury.

Chemicals

• Pesticides (like herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and rodenticides) should always be applied with care as per the label instructions to avoid possible health problems.
• Sometimes, poisoning can occur when especially children ingest garden chemicals by chance.

Sun
Generally, if a person is Over-exposed to the sun, it can cause sunstroke, sunburn and long-term diseases like skin cancer.

Unintentional injuries

• Bulbs and seeds can sometimes cause suffocating problems for young children.
• Some plant varieties are toxic to children who try to eat them by chance.

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