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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other types of dementia are most common in the very elderly, and are associated with huge health costs. With a rapidly ageing population throughout the world, factors that affect the risk of cognitive decline and dementia are of great importance… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: Risk Of Cognitive Decline And Dementia In The Elderly And Alcohol Intake According to a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 21.8% of pregnant white women between the ages of 15 to 44 years smoked cigarettes within the past 30 days, which is considerably higher compared with the smoking levels amongst pregnant Black women (14.2%) and pregnant Hispanic women (6.5%) within the same age range… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: 21.8% Of Pregnant White Women Smoke During high school the parents of teenagers’ friends can have as much effect on the teens’ substance use as their own parents, according to prevention researchers… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: Keeping Teens Substance Free New research from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York reveals that repeated exposure to cocaine decreases the activity of a protein necessary for normal functioning of the brain’s reward system, thus enhancing the reward for cocaine use, which leads to addiction. Investigators were also able to block the ability of repeated cocaine exposure, to induce addiction… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: Specific Protein Triggers Changes In Neurons In Brain Reward Center Linked To Cocaine Addiction Police officers are always trying to control the misconduct of those who are on parole in order to control crime in the community, but what types of behaviors land them back in jail and what can law enforcement officials do about it? A recent article in the Journal of Correctional Health Care (JCHC), published by SAGE, discusses how to target the most common risky behaviors amo… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: New Study Explores How To Decrease Risky Behavior Among Parolees In The Community According to results of a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents published in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication, the majority of teenagers have tried alcohol or experimented with drugs. The researchers highlight that patterns of alcohol and drug use during adolescence are increasingly seen as indicators of subsequent substance abuse… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: Most Teens Have Experimented With Drugs Or Alcohol A University of Colorado Boulder-led research team has discovered that two protein receptors in the central nervous system team up to respond to morphine and cause unwanted neuroinflammation, a finding with implications for improving the efficacy of the widely used painkiller while decreasing its abuse potential… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: Study Has Implications For Increasing Morphine Effectiveness, Decreasing Drug Abuse Anxiety, depression, stress and social support can predict early alcohol and illicit drug use in youth, according to a study from Carolyn McCarty, PhD, of Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and researchers from the University of Washington and Seattle University… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: Risk For Early Alcohol Use Reduced By Middle School Teacher Support According to the results of a new study published in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, patients who score highest on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) experience longer postoperative hospital stays and more days in the intensive care unit (ICU); they are also more likely to return to the operating room (OR… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: Heavy Alcohol Use One Year Prior To An Operation Associated With Longer Stays, More Days In Intensive Care And Increased Return To OR A major downside of the medical use of marijuana is the drug’s ill effects on working memory, the ability to transiently hold and process information for reasoning, comprehension and learning. Researchers reporting in the March 2 print issue of the Cell Press journal Cell provide new insight into the source of those memory lapses… View full post on Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News From Medical . . . → Read More: How Marijuana Impairs Memory |
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