Archive for the ‘Addiction’ Category
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Illegal and pharmaceutical drug users are far more likely to drive after taking drugs than those who drink alcohol, new research shows.
The Australian Drug Foundation (ADF), in conjunction with Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre (TP), announced the findings of their comprehensive year-long study into the drug-driving habits of Australian ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Research published in the online open access journal Genome Biology this week has identified a number of genes that are associated with sensitivity to alcohol in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). It is hoped that these findings will help researchers uncover the genetic basis of drinking behaviour in humans.
Fruit flies are ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
It is not levels of underage drinking, but early signs of antisocial behaviour that best predict future alcohol-related trouble and continued alcohol use by young people. This conclusion is drawn from a study led by Robert Young of the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Needham resident Daniel Alford, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) attending physician in the General Internal Medicine Department at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and associate medical director of the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Division with the Boston Public Health Commission, was one ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Cultural stereotypes about Hispanics could impede Latino youth from seeking help for drug and alcohol abuse. In turn, substance abuse treatment providers must better understand how their own attitudes toward culture can affect the provision of sufficient behavioral health services, according to a new study. To do this, providers must ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Tulane University researchers found that heavy drinking -- more than 21 drinks per week -- may increase the risk of stroke. The results of the study of a large group of men in China are published in a recent issue of Annals of Neurology.
"We found that the men who drink ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Abuse of psychostimulants such as amphetamine remains a serious public health concern. Amphetamines mediate their behavioral effects by stimulating dopaminergic signaling throughout reward circuits of the brain. This property of amphetamine relies on its actions at the dopamine transporter (DAT), a presynaptic plasma membrane protein responsible for the reuptake of ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Naltrexone is one of four oral medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of alcoholism. A recent large multicenter research study of alcohol dependence supported by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), the COMBINE Study, suggested that naltrexone produced a modest ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
It is wearisome that we had to submit to yet another expensive exercise in investigating the well documented and significant impact of illicit drugs on the family. The parliamentary Family and Human Services Committee's "The Winnable War on Drugs: the impact of Illicit Drug Use on Families" report is extremely ...
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