News tagged with illegal drug use

200 million use illegal drugs: Lancet estimate

About 200 million people around the world use illicit drugs, according to a study published on Friday in The Lancet.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Commentary calls for awareness of Internet pharmacies' role in prescription drug abuse

Efforts to halt the growing abuse of prescription drugs must include addressing the availability of these drugs on the Internet and increasing physician awareness of the dangers posed by Internet pharmacies. In a commentary ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High childhood IQ linked to subsequent illicit drug use

A high childhood IQ may be linked to subsequent illegal drug use, particularly among women, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Cocaine users have 45 percent increased risk of glaucoma

A study of the 5.3 million men and women seen in Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics in a one-year period found that use of cocaine is predictive of open-angle glaucoma, the most common type of glaucoma.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Happiness can deter crime, a new study finds

Happy adolescents report less involvement in crime and drug use than other youth, a new UC Davis study finds.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Taking drugs still acceptable as we get older

(PhysOrg.com) -- A long-term study has found that as we progress into our thirties illegal drug use is, with some caveats, still acceptable to many of us.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Father's incarceration associated with elevated risks of marijuana and other illegal drug use

In a recently published study in the journal Addiction, researchers from Bowling Green State University report evidence of an association between father's incarceration and substantially elevated risks for illegal drug u ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Risky business: Stressed men more likely to gamble

Stressed out, dude? Don't go to Vegas.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0