News tagged with opiates
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 surprising effect of cannabis on morphine dependence
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Injections of THC, the active principle of cannabis, eliminate dependence on opiates (morphine, heroin) in rats deprived of their mothers at birth. This has been shown by a study carried out ...
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.
Major study of opiate use in children's hospitals provides simple steps to alleviate harm
Oct 06, 2008 |
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Hospitalized kids with painful ailments from broken bones to cancer are often dosed with strong, painkilling drugs known as opiates. The medications block pain, but they can have nasty side effects. Constipation, for instance, ...
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New findings show additional similarity between opiate and nicotine addiction
Feb 13, 2008 |
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"That was good!" "Do it again." This is what the brain says when people use tobacco, as well as ‘hard drugs’ such as heroin. New research published in the February 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience indicates that t ...
Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of ...
Researchers separate analgesic effects from addictive aspects of pain-killing drugs
Aug 21, 2007 |
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For the first time, pain researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that it's possible to separate the good effects of opiate drugs such as morphine (pain relief) from the unwanted side ...
Research sheds new light on heroin addiction
May 14, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne have identified a factor that may contribute towards the development of heroin addiction by manipulating the adenosine A2A receptor, which plays a major role in the ...
In 16 states, drug deaths overtake traffic fatals
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday.
Nicotine triggers the same brain reward circuitry as opiates
Jun 15, 2005 |
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In experiments with mice, researchers have found that nicotine triggers the same neural pathways that give opiates such as heroin their addictively rewarding properties--including associating an environment with the drug's ...
Study focuses on prescription addiction
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 23, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco have started a study to evaluate treatments for addiction to prescription painkillers.
Fibromyalgia pain may cause memory blips
Dec 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The chronic pain from Fibromyalgia is devastating, but the suffering doesn't end there. According to a new study by the University of Alberta's Bruce Dick, people with the disease may have disruption in their ...
Nature or nurture -- Are you who your brain chemistry says you are?
Aug 12, 2008 |
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Researchers using positron emission tomography (PET) have validated a long-held theory that individual personality traits—particularly reward dependency—are connected to brain chemistry, a finding that has implications for ...
Flipping the brain's addiction switch without drugs
May 28, 2009 |
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When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain's pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.
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