Francisco died in 1919 and Jacinta in 1920, during the international Spanish flu pandemic. Lucia dos Santos became a nun and lived until 2005. The two who died young were beatified on 13 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II, and were canonised by Pope Francis on 13 May 2017, the hundredth anniversary of the first apparition.
This, in case you've ever lain awake at night pondering it, is what happens if you have the desire to mix drugs with paint. Washington DC-based artist Bryan Lewis Saunders did just that to create his aptly entitled portfolio of work, DRUGS. From cocaine and marijuana, to Xanax and Absinth, these narcotics-inspired self-portraits capture the many faces of Mr Saunders as he experiments with a cocktail of illegal substances. Inspired by Xanax is a psychedelic hipster-esq pastel image of Saunders donning a 'My Little Pony' t-shit and beanie hat (left).
Self Medication Theory of Addiction. The self-medication theory of addiction suggests that it is this attempt to self-soothe with alcohol and drugs that eventually leads to addiction. Once the individual realizes that these substances give them some relief they can start to abuse them more and more.he self-medication theory of addiction suggests that the individual will be attracted to different substances on the basis of their symptoms: * People with symptoms of anxiety can be attracted to alcohol or sedative type drugs because they produce feelings of relaxation.