News tagged with drug dependency
Brains of addicts are inherently abnormal: study (Update)
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) at the University of Cambridge have identified a brain abnormality which is found in drug-dependent individuals as well as their ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Study underlines potential of anti-stress peptide to block alcohol dependence
New research by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute has underlined the power of an endogenous anti-stress peptide in the brain to prevent and even reverse some of the cellular effects of acute alcohol and alcohol ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Study IDs new genetic links to impulsivity, alcohol problems in men
Being impulsive can lead us to say things we regret, buy things we really don't need, engage in behaviors that are risky and even develop troublesome addictions. But are different kinds of hastiness and rashness embedded ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Helping others helps teens stay on the road to addiction recovery
A new study of teens undergoing substance abuse treatment finds helping others helps the adolescent helper by reducing cravings for alcohol and drugs, a major precipitator of relapse. These novel findings stem from the "Helping ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Study examines nicotine as a gateway drug
A landmark study in mice identifies a biological mechanism that could help explain how tobacco products could act as gateway drugs, increasing a person's future likelihood of abusing cocaine and perhaps other drugs as well, ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Study: Many Europeans have mental disorders
(AP) -- Some 38 percent of Europeans, or 165 million people, suffer from mental illness or neurological disorders on a broad spectrum ranging from anxiety to dementia, a new study published Tuesday says. Most are not being ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Evidence for 'food addiction' in humans
Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, suggests that people can ...
Jul 12, 2011 |
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IAS urges Russian government to radically reassess counterproductive drug policies
28 June 2011. Geneva, Switzerland. As Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the Russian state Duma, calls for a "total war on drugs" to tackle Russia's growing drug problem, the International AIDS Society (IAS) urges the Russian government ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Abnormal brain structure linked to chronic cocaine abuse
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users' brains which are linked to their compulsive cocaine-using behaviour. Their findings were published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Scientists find key mechanism in transition to alcohol dependence
A team of Scripps Research Institute scientists has found a key biological mechanism underpinning the transition to alcohol dependence. This finding opens the door to the development of drugs to manage excessive alcohol consumption.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 31, 2011 |
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Brain researcher recognized for contributions to understanding, treatment of drug dependence
Warren K. Bickel, director of the Center for Substance Abuse at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the America Psychological Association Don Hake Translational Research ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2011 |
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Health of people with HIV who use drugs cannot improve without acknowledging their human rights
The a new paper in The Lancet Series on HIV in people who use drugs says a review of evidence shows that there is widespread abuse of human rights in people who use drugs, which increases risk of HIV infection and advers ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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HIV-infected drug users at greater risk of viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, bacterial infections and mental illness
HIV-infected drug users have increased age-matched morbidity and mortality compared with HIV-infected people who do not use drugs. This includes an increased risk of viral hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), bacterial infections, ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Injecting drug users have poor access to HIV services
The provision of HIV prevention services for injecting drug users, which is essential to contain the spread of HIV, is inadequate in most countries around the world and presents a critical public health problem, according ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 28, 2010 |
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FDA concerned dissolvable tobacco appeals to kids
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products - that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine - could be particularly ...
Feb 04, 2010 |
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