Border Patrol Stops Car, Finds $6.7 Million Worth of Cocaine
Border Patrol Stops Car, Finds .7 Million Worth of Cocaine
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Border Patrol agents at the Interstate 5 checkpoint near San Clemente stopped a compact car Friday with nearly 700 pounds of cocaine worth $ 6.7 million. The large seizure was equal to more than three quarters of the cocaine found by the Border Patrol … Read more on Patch.com
Researchers study cocaine addiction in rats
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The team studied the effects of cocaine addiction and withdrawal in rats and then identified specific brain receptors that they could modify with pharmaceuticals to prevent cocaine relapse in humans. The team plans to use its findings to produce a pill … Read more on University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
Pill to Fight Cocaine Addiction Closer to Reality
Pill to fight cocaine addiction closer to reality
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Researchers led by Pitt neuroscience professor Yan Dong used rat models to examine the effects of cocaine addiction and withdrawal on nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens, a small region in the brain that is commonly associated with reward, emotion, … Read more on Business Standard
Beaverdam grandfather faces 10 years in prison on cocaine charges
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A Beaverdam grandfather-turned-cocaine trafficker whose son was slain in a 2010 drug-related shootout faces 10 years or more in prison when he's sentenced Wednesday. Prosecutors are asking U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer to sentence Mark … Read more on Richmond Times Dispatch
In the Crossfire: Legalize Marijuana?
In the Crossfire: Legalize Marijuana?
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Cannabis is schedule 1, meaning it has no medical value, is unsafe for medical use, and has a high likelihood for addiction (on par with Heroin…while Cocaine and Meth are Schedule 2), yet they're rolling out the red carpet for trials and patents for … Read more on CNN (blog)
Silencing Synapses: Hope for Pharmacological Solution to Cocaine Addiction
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Researchers led by Pitt neuroscience professor Yan Dong used rat models to examine the effects of cocaine addiction and withdrawal on nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens, a small region in the brain that is commonly associated with reward, emotion, … Read more on ScienceBlog.com (blog)
From Scandal-Plagued Politicians to Natural Disasters, a Look Back at 2013
From scandal-plagued politicians to natural disasters, a look back at 2013
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31 – Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged he was suffering from a rare but serious skin disorder, treated with a steroid that had side effects such as bloating and weight gain and possible bouts of sleeplessness. He said neither the condition nor … Read more on Victoria Times Colonist
Inmate accused of killing Canaan CO should have been confined, but sanctions …
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That change in disciplinary philosophy – at least in the case of the violent Con-ui, who gunned down a gang rival outside a Phoenix, Ariz., laundry facility in 2002 and conspired in a cocaine-trafficking ring that led to federal charges and an 11-year … Read more on CorrectionsOne
Avoiding Cocaine Addiction: Sons of Addicted Fathers Less Likely to Be …
Avoiding Cocaine Addiction: Sons Of Addicted Fathers Less Likely To Be …
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In the animal model, repeated cocaine use by male offspring failed to evince the same brain response seen in their coke-addicted fathers. Rather, the animals appeared inured to the addictive effect of cocaine, with no remodeling of the brain to … Read more on Medical Daily
Cure addiction the Mao Tse-tung way
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Burroughs describes how he is relieved instantaneously by drugs that can have had little physiological effect upon his symptoms. The notion of addiction as illness cannot possibly explain why, … The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United … Read more on Spectator.co.uk
Cocaine Use May Increase HIV Vulnerability
Cocaine use may increase HIV vulnerability
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"We found that cocaine mediates its effects directly, inducing minimal changes in the physiology of these cells and utilizing the same pathways it uses to target the brain." For the year long in vitro study, the researchers collected blood from healthy … Read more on Medical Xpress
Brain may never fully recover from cocaine addiction: Study
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WASHINGTON: Brain may never fully recover from the effects of cocaine addiction, even after long-term abstinence from the substance, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found. Researchers have found that even long-term abstinence from … Read more on Times of India