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Teens may become hooked on cocaine and, once rehabilitated, relapse more rapidly than adults because their developing brains are more sensitive to drug-related cues. At least in the case of rats, this holds true. A new study carried out at McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric facility at Harvard Medical School, a... |
22 April 2008
05:24 GMT |
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It's clear that exposing an unborn child to drugs, alcohol and tobacco affects its brain development. This is supported by too many researches. In these cases, mothers don't limit themselves to one substance, and other factors like poverty can affect brain development as well.A new research published in the... |
14 April 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Social stress induced by lower rank may be the factor that leads humans to drug consumption. At least, this is the case in monkeys, as revealed by a new research made at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and presented at Experimental Biology 2008 in San Diego. Dominant monkeys facing the same stress amount ha... |
7 April 2008
04:52 GMT |
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There is a large array of studies focusing on how cocaine impacts the brain creating addiction. The main investigated mechanism has been the effect of cocaine on dopamine (the feel good or reward hormone) and dopamine transporters, proteins that reabsorb this neurotransmitter once it has sent its signal. Cocaine is k... |
25 February 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Cocaine is deadlier than many viruses. And it surely destroys more lives. So, why not a vaccine against it? This is the aim of a couple of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: the first-ever medication against cocaine addiction. "For people who have a desire to stop using, the vaccine should be very... |
3 January 2008
02:42 GMT |
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Just hours after giving a clean performance at the MTV European Music Awards in Germany, a shocking footage has emerged depicting the Babyshambles front man Pete Doherty back at his home in Wiltshire injecting himself with cocaine. The video in question is shot on a mobile phone and lasts 1min 14secs (you can watch ... |
6 November 2007
03:51 GMT |
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In the end, their neurons function on the same basis as ours and squirrels are getting hooked on crack cocaine in London, hidden by addicts and dealers in gardens. The rodents are digging up the stashes and eat the powerful drug, which comes in small chunks, neglecting their traditional nut diet. Several squirrels be... |
8 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Craving for sugar seems to be a much more serious problem than you thought. If you believe that craving for cocaine in the case of addiction to this drug is terribly difficult to bear, you'd better find out the result of a research team at the University of Bordeaux in France. "[W]hen rats were allowed to choose... |
3 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The drive of getting over your opponents is as old as humankind. Power, a higher rank in the hierarchy, is strongly motivating the human males. "Whether it is in combat, business, sports, or even marriage, trying to gain an advantage is a no-brainer. It is an innate human trait," said Charles Yesalis, an expert on pe... |
23 June 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Drugs are even more deadly than viruses. So, why not a vaccine against them? That's what a team at Baylor College of Medicine, Canada, has developed: two novel vaccines designed to fight cocaine and methamphetamine dependencies. The new vaccines not only relieve addiction but also decrease withdrawal symptoms. T... |
22 June 2007
07:04 GMT |
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Cocaine and making children do not combine. It's clear that maternal drug can induce lasting effects on children. A new research reveals that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using mothers performed more poorly on attention tests. The investigation was made on 415 African-American children when aged 5 or 7 (now 1... |
12 June 2007
03:22 GMT |
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Besides being the smallest birds in the world (a Jamaican species, Mellisuga minima, is 6 cm (2.3 inch) long and weighs 2g), hummingbirds have also other peculiar characteristics, like the hovering ability, being the only birds species in the world able to move their wings equally forth and back. Now, to the about 40... |
15 May 2007
09:55 GMT |
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You can easily add this to your own personal list of the most stupid things you ever heard of. Or read. But, as it happens, this doesn't make it less true: the guitarist from Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, the man who simply defied all common sense by still being alive (this is not meant as an insult and he, ou... |
4 April 2007
08:45 GMT |
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It is crystal clear: drugs blow away your mind! Literally. A new research at UT Southwestern Medical Center reveals that higher rates of amphetamine and cocaine useD by young adults increase significantly their risk of stroke, with amphetamine linked to a greater danger. The research focused on over 8,300 stroke pati... |
3 April 2007
09:43 GMT |
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Coca is a bush growing naturally in northern Andes and indigenous people in the area have been chewing coca leaves as a mild stimulant for centuries. Coca tea is commonly served in its native region as a coffee surrogate. But the small fresh green leaves, collected in the fashion of green tea, are also manufactured i... |
7 March 2007
09:42 GMT |
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Genes dictates everything in you: from height, eye and hair color to the way you smile or grin. And not only. A recent research made on rats by a team at Cambridge University points that physical differences in the brain dictated by genes may rise the chances of an individual to fall to drugs consume. Variations in t... |
3 March 2007
07:13 GMT |
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