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A Path to Lower-Risk Painkillers: Newly-Discovered Drug Target Paves Way for Alternatives to Morphine
June 10, 2013 — New findings provide vital step towards exploring pain medications that may lower risks of prescription drug abuse and side effects of ... > full story -
Discovery May Lead to New Treatments for Jaundice
June 10, 2013 — Helping to protect newborns and older patients against more severe effects of jaundice is the hope of researchers who have shown how a liver enzyme protects cells from damage caused by the condition. ... > full story -
Designated Drivers Don't Always Abstain: One in Three Are Impaired, Study Suggests
June 10, 2013 — Maybe better call that cab, after all: A new study found that 35 percent of designated drivers had quaffed alcohol and most had blood-alcohol levels high enough to impair their ... > full story -
Not Really 'Bath Salts': Update on 'Designer Stimulants'
June 4, 2013 — The last few years have seen the emergence of a new drug problem in so-called "bath salts"—- actually "designer stimulants," packaged and sold in ways that skirt drug ... > full story -
Smoking, Sugar, Spirits and 'Sin' Taxes: Higher Price Would Help Health
June 3, 2013 — Go ye and sin no more -- or pay for it, when it comes to junk food, smoking and consuming alcohol. That's the message from two physicians who say raising "sin" taxes on tobacco and alcoholic ... > full story -
Researchers Focus on a Brain Protein and an Antibiotic to Block Cocaine Craving
June 3, 2013 — A new study by neuroscientists demonstrates that GLT1, a protein that clears glutamate from the brain, plays a critical role in the craving for cocaine that develops after only several days of ... > full story -
Smoking Leads to Five-Fold Increase in Heart Disease and Stroke in Under-50s
May 31, 2013 — Smoking increases the risk of heart disease and stroke by five-fold in people under the age of 50 and doubles risk in the over-60s. The protection of children and adolescents from taking up smoking ... > full story -
Quitting Smoking: Licensed Medications Are Effective
May 30, 2013 — Nicotine replacement therapy and other licensed drugs can help people quit smoking, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. The study supports the use of the smoking ... > full story -
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Are Children Who Take Ritalin for ADHD at Greater Risk of Future Drug Abuse?
May 29, 2013 — Children who take medication such as Ritalin and Adderall for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at no greater risk for later taking alcohol, marijuana, nicotine and cocaine than ... > full story -
Childhood Abuse Linked With Food Addiction in Adult Women
May 29, 2013 — Women who experienced severe physical or sexual abuse during childhood are much more likely to have a food addiction as adults than women who did not experience such abuse, according to a new study. ... > full story
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