Study Shows Pill Prevents HIV Among Drug Addicts
Drug-injecting addicts who took a daily antiretroviral pill were half as likely to become infected with H.I.V. as those who did not, a major new study has found, providing the final piece of evidence that such treatments can prevent AIDS in every group …
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Drug War Blocking Potential Treatments for Cancer, Alzheimer's, Journal Claims
In the U.S., the drug can only be legally obtained for study from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and requires a special review and FDA-approved protocols that are not needed to study legal drugs or most experimental compounds. In the U.K …
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Alcohol advertising: in the eye of the beer-holder
It was written by Charles Parry, director of the alcohol and drug abuse research unit at the Medical Research Council and an extraordinary professor in the department of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University; Nadine Harker Burnhams, a senior scientist …
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Sleeping Pill Addiction
However, It is important to note that sleeping pill addiction can lead to deterioration in the quality of life and there are possible health consequences as well. The dangers associated with sleeping pill addiction will depend on the type of drug that …
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Danger Lurks in Dirt Track Racing
“It's like a bad addiction,” said Donny Schatz, a five-time dirt track champion who was a friend of Leffler's. “It's something you grow to love and … But it does not mandate the types of safety barriers typically used in Nascar. The race in which …
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You really are addicted to your cellphone
With respect to experimental studies, it's much easier to get negative results because all you have to do is study the wrong cell type. Younger cells are more vulnerable than older cells. So if you study adult cells—and really, effects are mostly in …
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Drug Abuse and Recovery
Nancy Shute interviews David Sheff and his son, Nic Sheff, about their struggle with drug abuse. Nic Sheff wrote the book "Tweak" about his meth addiction and his father David wrote "Beautiful Boy" from his perspective on being the father of a drug addict.
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New approach for reducing drug abuse
Critics of the "war on drugs" point to the limited success of current strategies for reducing drug abuse and argue that a new approach is needed. Such an approach may now be on the horizon within the covers of a new book by New York Times best-selling …
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'Clean,' by David Sheff
It must be the purest agony to be the parent of a child succumbing to drug addiction. David Sheff's previous book was an account of his son Nic's descent from a thoughtful boy to a sullen pothead to a self-destructive methamphetamine fiend, and of his …
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Isabel Allende on "Maya's Notebook," Drug Addiction, 1973 Chilean Coup …
The best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, "Maya's Notebook: A Novel." It tells the story of a teenager named Maya Vidal and her struggles with drug addiction, grief and history. Although a work of fiction, the story is …
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Tom Sizemore discusses drug abuse in autobiographical book
It refers to a man who, by his own admission, is nothing but a "spoiled movie star," "an arrogant fool" who at one point is a "hope-to-die" an addict. The book, which was released on April 9, gives the reader a a behind-the-scenes look at the actor's …
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David Sheff: Watching my son become a drug addict
I wrote about the years our family lived through his addiction in the book Beautiful Boy. Readers of it and of Nic's own books — a pair of memoirs, Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down— know many of the gory details. Over the …
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Calling 911 Shouldn't Lead to Jail
PARENTS of drug-addicted kids learn the hard way that when we think things can't get worse, they do. … But research suggests that, among those who witness an overdose, the most common reason people don't call for help is the fear of being arrested.
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TN welfare drug test plan faces hurdles
The most recent report, dated April 1, outlines the possibility of using the Drug Abuse Screening Test evaluating tool to show reasonable cause among program applicants. … based Highlander Research and Education Center. "It doesn't take stigmas away, …
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Picking Addiction Help
“Treatment is not a prerequisite to surviving addiction.” This bold statement opens the treatment chapter in a helpful new book, “Now What? An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery,” by William Cope Moyers, a man who nonetheless needed “four …
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Youth's addiction recovery predicted with AA-related helping tool
A Case Western Reserve University professor has found that young people addicted to alcohol and drugs can increase their chances of recovery by helping others. In 2010, Maria Pagano, PhD, found that adults who became involved in Alcoholics …
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Editorial: Addiction Intervention and Treatment Work
It seems now days one can't go an entire day without hearing about addiction and recovery. It's on the internet, in the news, the story line of many television shows and movies, and the focus of reality television programs. But while addiction is …
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