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Antibiotic That Appears To Control Phobias May Also Be Useful In Treating Addiction
November 6, 2007 — Scientists now provide further evidence that a drug known as D-cycloserine could play a role in helping to extinguish the craving behaviors associated with drug addiction. Their study found that mice ... > full story -
Sleep, And How Cocaine Changes The Brain To Make Treatment So Difficult
November 6, 2007 — New research clarifies the role of drugs of abuse on sleep, why cocaine is so powerful, and the brain changes that occur due to abuse that make addiction so difficult to treat. Studies have found ... > full story -
Genes Play Important Role In Risk For Dependence On Illicit And Licit Drugs
November 5, 2007 — The genes that play a role in illegal drug abuse are not entirely the same as those involved in dependence on legal substances like alcohol and nicotine, and caffeine addiction appears to be ... > full story -
Stress Increases Cocaine Addiction
November 5, 2007 — Anyone who sniffs cocaine once has a 15 to 20% likelihood of becoming addicted to this hard drug. Why does the recreational user only try it once whereas another person becomes physically and ... > full story -
Highs And Lows Of Drug Cravings
October 11, 2007 — The anticipation of a cocaine fix and the actual craving to abuse the drug are two closely related phenomena, according to new evidence. Scientists explain that craving is an intense and often ... > full story -
'Rusting' Also Describes How Methamphetamine Harms The Body
September 27, 2007 — A pharmacology professor who left the lab bench to focus on science education has developed a tactic for keeping students hands in the air at the end of class. "What does get students' attention?" ... > full story -
Cocaine Use Related To Level Of Education Achieved
August 29, 2007 — The decreased use of cocaine in the United States over the last 20 years mostly occurred among the highly educated, while cocaine use among non-high school graduates remained ... > full story -
Sewage Tells Tales About Community-Wide Drug Abuse
August 21, 2007 — Public health officials may soon be able to flush out more accurate estimates on illegal drug use in communities across the country thanks to a new screening test. The test doesn't screen people ... > full story -
New Treatment Effective In Counteracting Cocaine-Induced Symptoms
August 13, 2007 — Researchers have discovered a treatment that counteracts the effects of cocaine on the human cardiovascular system, including lowering the elevated heart rate and blood pressure often found in ... > full story -
Not All 'Drug-Related Deaths' Are 'Drug-Related'
August 8, 2007 — UK estimates of "drug-related deaths" include mortalities of drug abusers and nondrug abusers. So these figures may not be the best way of monitoring the performance of Drug and Alcohol Action ... > full story
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