Archive for the ‘Research & News’ Category

Scientists Explore Overlapping Treatments for Addiction

As addiction can be all-consuming for the individual with the problem, health care professionals are consistently on the look out for new treatments that can have an impact. In a recent Associated Press piece, the author examined the potential of a once-a-month alcoholism shot to prevent heroin addicts...
June 1st, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

Teen Suicides involving Drugs (2008 Data)

Teens that require treatment in the emergency department for drug-related injury are sending a signal for a cry for help. None are so urgent, however, as the signal indicated by a teen who arrives in the emergency department who has attempted suicide while using drugs.
May 27th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

White House Strategy for Tackling the Drug Problem: Is It Enough?

Gil Kerlikowske, White House drug czar, is not wrong when he points the finger at Americans as being involved in the drug abuse problem. According to a report in the Christian Science Monitor, the United States is a disproportionate global drug abuser.
May 26th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

Psychoactive Substances – Designed for Addiction

While it is easy to assume that everyone has the tendency to become addicted to one substance or another, why is it that some people develop significant problems while others are able to simply sample and be done? One consistency in the reality of psychoactive substances is that they manifest themselves...
May 24th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16

Gee, if Lehman Brothers still existed, maybe they would figure out a well to sell CDOs for drug trafficking? http://ow.ly/1JkmA #Powered by Twitter Tools
May 16th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

Actress’s Son Ends Life After Struggling with Addiction, Depression

The son of “Diff’rent Strokes” actress Dana Plato has committed suicide at age 25, almost 11 years to the day after his mother took her own life in May 1999. Tyler Lambert is said to have suffered from drug addiction and depression, and the anniversary of his mother’s dead was...
May 13th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

Drug Abuse and Obesity: What Do They Have in Common?

Two of the most challenging health problems in America today are drug abuse and obesity. The search for ways to unlock the secrets of both types of addiction may have just gotten a boost. Results of new research, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes...
May 12th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

Shift in National Drug Policy Announced

Four decades after President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs," the White House on Tuesday announced a shift in national drug policy that would treat illegal drug use more as a public health issue and plunge more resources into prevention and treatment.
May 11th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

Link between Parkinson’s Treatment and Compulsive Behavior

Pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, binge eating, and other impulse control disorders appear to be more common among individuals taking dopamine agonist medications for Parkinson’s disease, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
May 10th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More

PRISM Awards Acknowledge Substance Abuse Portrayals in Cinema

Each year, the nonprofit organization Entertainment Industries Council (EIC), in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), hosts a prestigious award ceremony for the entertainment industry unlike any other. EIC’s Prism Awards acknowledge works of...
May 7th, 2010 | Research & News | Read More