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
Addictions Awareness Week Kicks Off
Addictions Awareness week kicks off
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The awareness week helps reduce stigma around the discourse of addiction to drugs, gambling and alcohol, which can have disastrous effects if used in excess. “Some of my family members have lost everything to the point where they are as low as they … Read more on Alberta Daily Herald Tribune
At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care
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He considered opioid addiction “a hopeless disease,” with patients leaving rehab and then relapsing and sometimes dying, until he started prescribing Suboxone, the brand-name drug whose main ingredient is buprenorphine, as a maintenance therapy in 2004 … Read more on New York Times
EBR Coroner Proposes Tougher Sentences for Heroin Dealers
EBR coroner proposes tougher sentences for heroin dealers
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Seeking to stem the recent surge of heroin overdoses in south Louisiana, the coroner of East Baton Rouge Parish is asking lawmakers to drastically increase prison sentences for people convicted of distributing the highly addictive drug. Dr. Beau Clark … Read more on The Advocate
Should Maryland add Lefty Driesell's name to Cole Field House?
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I know that Driesell was something of a polarizing figure on campus during portions of his Maryland career, and his departure a few months after the death of star player Len Bias from a cocaine overdose was not the way he or his fans wanted him to go out. Read more on Baltimore Sun
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
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Affects the Behaviour of the Child
Prenatal cocaine exposure affects the behaviour of the child
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Researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine conducted several studies highlighting the harmful effects of cocaine use during pregnancy on children. Exposure to cocaine during pregnancy affects both brain and behavior of offspring , according … Read more on Doctor Tipster
Ogden woman shares story of cocaine addiction at age 11, road to recovery
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“I had so many people tell me not to go through drug court because it wouldn't help, but it taught me more about myself and my addiction that I had ever realized,” she said. This month, Weber … “I have lost two children because of my addiction. I … Read more on StandardNet
The Brain Effects of Cocaine Addiction Never Fully Go Away
The Brain Effects Of Cocaine Addiction Never Fully Go Away
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The modern approach to handling an addiction is to recognize it as a disease that cannot be cured – only managed. A new study in the journal Biological Psychiatry reinforces this notion: that a recovering addict is constantly haunted by their days of … Read more on RedOrbit
Did Jack Nicholson's Cocaine Use Cause His Memory Problems And Early …
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“Cocaine use has life-changing, long-term consequences on the brain,” Dr. Ersche tells RadarOnline.com. “We all age and the brain loses gray matter. But when you look at how cocaine users' brains age per year, it's twice as much as healthy people. Read more on Radar Online