Prescription Drug Abuse: CDC Answers Your Questions
PBS NewsHour recently aired a report on prescription drug abuse that led viewers to ask many questions. We asked the CDC to answer them, below. One in 20 people in the United States say they've used prescription painkillers for non-medical reasons in …
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Lyons: Drug courts offer sober approach to drug abuse
Drug addiction is a major societal problem with an annual treatment cost of $ 193 billion each year in crime, lost productivity and health-care costs, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. … There's one reason for the growth: Drug courts …
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Virtual reality worlds could help treat drug addicts learn coping methods to …
Zach Rosenthal, an assistant professor at Duke, created the simulations with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Defense and has tested the programs on about 90 people. The methodology used in this is called cue …
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Gaps in prescription drug abuse treatment exist despite Missoula effort
Thursday: One family's story of prescription drug abuse, and its tragic consequences. Friday: Pharmacists are often the first line of defense against prescription drug abuse. Today: What are the options for addiction treatment in Missoula? Where are …
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Brooke Mueller 'Missing After She Refuses Drug Addiction Treatment And …
Brooke Mueller is reportedly missing after leaving an involuntary psychiatric hold last week and refusing treatment for drug addiciton. Charlie Sheen's ex wife lost custody of her four-year-old twins Bob and Max last Thursday after the Los Angeles …
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Khat Drug Use Affects Brain Chemistry and Proves Harmful For Users, Recovery …
Pronounced “cot,” Khat contains cathinone, a controlled substance with no recognized therapeutic use. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it is for this reason that the Federal Government considers khat use illegal. Khat shrub leaves are …
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Pharmacists are often on the front line against prescription drug abuse …
Curtis, of Corvallis Drug, said he worries about people with access to the registry using it for the wrong reasons – “maybe to see what another employee might be using, or your boss or your friend or your wife.” Still, he called it “a useful tool.” The …
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2 Investigates: Legal drug abuse
Trading one addiction for another is how some drug addicts and counselors describe a popular treatment for curing addiction to pain pills and heroin. The drug, which comes … "Suboxone stops their craving, they have no reason to get high. As a matter …
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Is Dr. Drew Too Risky for Prime Time?
Indeed, Celebrity Rehab's treatment—leaving aside the massive confidentiality violation of being televised—diverges dramatically from the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) Principles of Drug Treatment, a guide that lays out standards for the …
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Could a jab that prevents heroin reaching the brain be the key to ending …
Professor George Koob, who chairs The Scripps Research Institute's (TSRI) addiction research group in Florida, said: 'Heroin-addicted rats deprived of the drug will normally resume using it compulsively if they regain access, but our vaccine stops this …
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Laser Light Zaps Away Cocaine Addiction
“When we turn on a laser light in the prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex, the compulsive cocaine seeking is gone,” said Antonello Bonci, MD, scientific director of the intramural research program at the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse …
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Town Hall meeting on prescription drug abuse
According to the latest statistics, 2,500 teens, ages 12 to 17, each day abuse a pain reliever for the first time. The National Institute for Drug Abuse [NIDA] has information that the stimulant Adderall and the pain reliever Vicodin are among the most …
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Scientist sees stress, substance abuse similarities
The $ 2.5 million, awarded by the National Institute of Health and National Institute on Drug Abuse will be used to fund pay for faculty and graduate students that work on the project, as well as travel costs, laboratory supplies and equipment. Around …
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NIH study sheds light on how to reset the addicted brain
The study, published in Nature, was conducted by scientists at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the University of California, San Francisco. “This exciting …
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Abcam boosts drug addiction research
Abcam Biochemicals will provide the FFN compounds to its customers to support both fundamental and applied neurobiological research, including neurodegeneration and drug addiction. The FFNs licenced by Abcam are first-of-a-kind small molecules that …
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