News tagged with psychoactive drugs
Drug users know their stuff
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Drug users are well informed about the harms associated with the drugs they use, and perceive alcohol and tobacco to be amongst the most dangerous substances, according to a survey by UCL (University College ...
Sedatives may increase suicide risk in older patients
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Sleeping tablets have been associated with a four-fold increase in suicide risk in the elderly. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Geriatrics have shown that, even after adjusting for the presence of psychi ...
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New Dangers of 'Clubbing Drugs' on the Web
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Two University of Hertfordshire academics will release new evidence about the dangers of ‘Spice’ drugs today at the first International Psychonaut Web Mapping Conference in Ancona, Italy.
Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers ...
Therapy can reduce tics and Tourette syndrome
Dec 15, 2007 |
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At a time when doctors reach for drugs as a first line of treatment for psychological disorders ranging from attention hyperactivity/deficit disorder (ADHD) to bipolar disorder, a review of the reported research indicates ...
Incense is psychoactive: Scientists identify the biology behind the ceremony
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May 20, 2008 |
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Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. In a new study appearing online in The FASEB Journal, an international team o ...
Is cannabis the answer to Booze Britain's problems?
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Substituting cannabis in place of more harmful drugs may be a winning strategy in the fight against substance misuse. Research published in BioMed Central' open access Harm Reduction Journal features a poll of 350 cannab ...
Study points to new uses, unexpected side effects of already existing drugs
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases ...
Study: Psychotherapy can reduce tics
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 18, 2007 |
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U.S. scientists have discovered several types of psychotherapy effectively reduce tic symptoms in people with Tourette's disorder or similar conditions.
Narcolepsy Drug Being Used to Improve Cognitive Performance Affects Brain Dopamine Activity
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Preliminary research in healthy men suggests that the narcolepsy drug modafinil, increasingly being used to enhance cognitive abilities, affects the activity of dopamine in the brain in a way that may create ...
Scientists are high on idea that marijuana reduces memory impairment
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The more research they do, the more evidence Ohio State University scientists find that specific elements of marijuana can be good for the aging brain by reducing inflammation there and possibly even stimulating the formation ...
Marijuana increases alcohol toxicity in young rats
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Marijuana is among the most frequently used illicit drugs by women during their childbearing years and there is growing concern that marijuana abuse during pregnancy, either alone or in combination with other drugs, may have ...
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