Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
12 Apr 2008
With Arizona facing a critical crisis of methamphetamine use, Dr. Gregory Ellison, Director of Advanced Medical Center, has identified a very promising new addiction treatment option that shows high success rates and is performed on an out-patient (versus in-patient) basis in 10 hours over five sessions. As the only doctor in the state [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Kele Ding
10 Apr 2008
Researchers have identified, for the first time, long-term changes in the brain circuitry of methamphetamine-addicted mice that can explain why the craving of addiction is so stubborn and long-lived. The research could lead to more effective treatments for addiction to methamphetamine and related drugs.
In their experiments, the researchers treated mice with methamphetamine and [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Kele Ding
02 Apr 2008
A new study finds that references to illegal drug use in rap music jumped sixfold in the two decades since 1979, the year Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” hit the charts and introduced to a mainstream audience a music genre born from inner-city America.
Moreover, illegal drug use became increasingly linked during this time [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Kele Ding
This book represents the first systematic discussion of the Gateway Hypothesis, a developmental hypothesis formulated to model how adolescents initiate and progress in the use of various drugs. In the United States, this progression proceeds from the use of tobacco or alcohol to the use of marijuana and other illicit drugs. This volume presents a [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Kele Ding
16 Mar 2008
UroToday.com – Majority of Pelvic Pain Patients Have More Than One Pain Generating Diagnosis
Chronic pelvic pain afflicts up to 10% of women and results in billions of dollars in direct and indirect costs. Fenton and colleagues from an Akron, Ohio Pain Center determined the frequency and distribution of multiple pain-generating diagnoses in their [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Kele Ding
15 Mar 2008
Most people occasionally worry about germs, strange noises in the night, or whether they forgot to turn off the oven before leaving on vacation. But for as many as 5 million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), such anxieties are constant and can almost literally take over their lives.
Now two expert clinical psychologists at [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Kele Ding
04 Mar 2008
Restrictions on alcohol have led to the increased use of marijuana among a remote Aboriginal community according to a study in the Australian Journal of Rural Health published by Wiley -Blackwell.
The study entitled “Lukumbat Marawana: A Changing Pattern of Drug Use by Youth in a Remote Aboriginal Community” finds that the prohibition of [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Kele Ding
New Study: How Cigarette Smoke Causes Cancer
29 Feb 2008
Everyone has known for decades that smoking causes cancer, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide in cigarette smoke causes lung cancer. This finding may help [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Kele Ding
28 Feb 2008
A study by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the University of Florida suggests that ‘tweens’ should receive alcohol prevention programs prior to sixth grade, when nearly one in six children are already alcohol users.
The study found that adolescents who already use alcohol are less receptive to prevention programs aimed [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Kele Ding
22 Feb 2008
Drug treatments for depression can take many weeks for the beneficial effects to emerge. The excruciating and disabling nature of depression highlights the urgency of developing treatments that act more rapidly. Ketamine, a drug used in general medicine as an anesthetic, has recently been shown to produce improvements in depressed patients within hours [...]
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