Fatal Drug Overdoses Rank High in Kentucky – as Do Efforts to Combat Problem

Published October 8, 2013

Fatal drug overdoses rank high in Kentucky – as do efforts to combat problem
Filed under: cocaine addiction pharmacological treatment
“Prescription drug abuse has quickly become a major health problem in the United States,” said Jeffrey Levi, the trust's executive director, adding that deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses outnumber those from cocaine and heroin combined. He … Read more on The Courier-Journal

Enzymatic Pathway Common to Drugs of Abuse Could Lead to New Treatments
Filed under: cocaine addiction pharmacological treatment
… Common to Drugs of Abuse Could Lead to New Treatments. Oct. 6, 2013 — The extracellular-signal regulated kinase (ERK) pathway plays a role in multiple drug addictions and appears to modulate neuronal plasticity through epigenetic mechanisms, say … Read more on Science Daily (press release)

Amino Acid Offers Potential Therapeutic Alternative in Psychiatric Disorders
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One such investigative compound currently in clinical trials is an amino acid, N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC), which appears to reduce the core symptoms of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, autism and cravings in addictions including cocaine … Read more on Science Daily (press release)