News tagged with cocaine users
Brain-behavior disconnect in cocaine addiction
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Parts of the brain involved in monitoring behaviors and emotions show different levels of activity in cocaine users relative to non-drug users, even when both groups perform equally well on ...
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Cocaine use related to level of education achieved
Aug 29, 2007 |
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The decreased use of cocaine in the United States over the last 20 years mostly occurred among the highly educated, while cocaine use among non-high school graduates remained constant, according to a study by researchers ...
Cocaine and heroin harm placenta
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Cocaine and heroin increase permeability of the placenta. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology have shown that exposure to the drugs causes an increase in the ...
Cocaine: Perceived as a reward by the brain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 19, 2009 |
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Cocaine is one of the oldest drugs known to humans, and its abuse has become widespread since the end of the 19th century. At the same time, we know rather little about its effects on the human brain or the mechanisms that ...
Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
Ecstasy use up as methamphetamine levels off
Jun 11, 2009 |
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An increase in the use of ecstasy may be due to the outlawing of the party pill drug BZP and the bad reputation of P, according to the latest findings of the illicit drugs monitoring work done by Massey University researchers.
Researchers find heroin, cocaine top drug treatment admissions in King County; prescription-type opiates cause most deat
Jul 22, 2009 |
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A community workgroup led by UW research scientist Caleb Banta-Green, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, unveiled today the King County 2008 annual drug trends report. Heroin and cocaine led the list of county drug treatment ...
The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Fruit flies may seem like unlikely heroes in the battle against drug abuse, but new research suggests that these insects — already used to study dozens of human disease — could claim that role. Scientists ...
Half of addicts quit after 6 months of treatment
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- About half of heroin and crack cocaine addicts in England's treatment programs quit the drugs after six months, a new study says.
UN reports decline in cultivation of some drugs
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In its annual report on world drug use, the United Nations concludes that global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are holding steady or in decline.
Cocaine exposure during pregnancy leads to impulsivity in male, not female, monkeys
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Adult male monkeys exposed to cocaine while in the womb have poor impulse control and may be more vulnerable to drug abuse than female monkeys, even a decade or more after the exposure, according to a new study by researchers ...
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