Clinical trial testing new treatment for marijuana addiction
Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County is accepting marijuana smokers ages 18-50 for the trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), according to Margaret K. Garrett, research liaison for the treatment center. “Generally we are …
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Georgia Medical Cannabis Bill Amended, Heads to House Floor
The University of Mississippi, in 1986, contracted with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the university's lab to grow, harvest, and process cannabis and to ship it to licensed facilities across the country for research. In the bill …
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Home + School Programs Modestly Slow Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
As a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended restricting access to painkillers such as Percocet, Oxycontin, and Vicodin. “These drugs are very available, and highly addictive,” said Max Crowley, Ph.D., an NIH Research Fellow at …
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Prevalence of high school seniors' marijuana use is expected to increase with …
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and Monitoring the Future principal investigators, had no role in analysis, interpretation of results, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for …
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