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NCC To Sign Mou With UN For AIDS Awareness Programme

...re. Another MoU on controlling the spread of drug addiction would also be signed, he added. Besides, an agreement would be signed with the Forest Department for afforestation programme in Chattisgarh, Bhandari said. The total number of cadets in the country was 13 lakh and two lakh cadets would be enrolled s...

Drug addiction higher in rural Punjab: study

...in those areas. It attributed the high levels of addiction to poverty, lack of awareness and easy availability of drugs and pointed out that government service among other factors reduced the chances of addiction. Rodrigues said a crusade against drug abuse was required and recommended an "institutionalize...

Too Much PC Gaming Makes Children Lonely and Sick

...ychotherapist from Koblenz, the new form of gaming addiction is often a result of family problems. 'No child ...e parents are getting nowhere, they can turn to an addiction or parenting crisis centre. 'Sometimes it helps to bring the child along,' Grosch says. 'It often ...

An After-Dinner Nap Is A Natural Thing, Scientists Proved

...ural activities like learning, reward seeking, and addiction will result from functioning disabilities of the orexin cells of neurons and it was also been linked to obesity, according to Dr Burdakov. Scientists took neurons from brain cells of mice and treated with various concentrations of glucose as happen...

Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

...f the state capital Imphal, has the highest heroin addiction rate in India. The drug that is cheaply available - Rs.100 for a single shot - is smuggled across the porous Myanmar frontier, barely 40 km away. A recent survey revealed that around 67 percent of regular heroin users were 11-year-old schoolchildren...

Do Food Images Encourage Binge Eating and Obesity ?

... understand the vulnerability to multiple forms of addiction and compulsive behaviors. This gives an idea about drug cues in case of drug addicts. Dr Ian Campbell, an expert in obesity from Nottingham and medical director of the charity Weight Concern, said that loss of appetite control in dieters was not just...

Growing Drug Addiction Rate among Elderly Population

...it was found that there is an increase in the drug addiction rate among the America's elderly population//. It is said that adults aged 50 and above suffer from severe substance abuse problems. It is estimated that the number of people addicted to drug would double to 5 million by the end of 2020. Even the you...

Research Scans Explain Why People Crave For Food

...r understanding vulnerability to multiple forms of addiction and compulsive behaviours. He explained that the research demonstrates how the person’s reward sensitivity may also relate to their vulnerability to substance abuse, and that the brain network they have identified is a hyper-responsive to drug cues i...

Drug Addicts In US Expected To Double By 2020

Drug addiction is becoming a significant public health probelm in...this figure rose to 31,203, representing that drug addiction is indeed becoming a growing problem in the U.S., specifically among the aged....

Meth Addiction On The Rise, US Health Authorities Concerned

Methamphetamine addiction has reached alarming proportions, with the number ... effective strategy to combat methamphetamine drug addiction that continues to be a significant challenge....

Arab World Wakes Up To Drug Addiction

...uoted as telling the Times. "The taboo around drug addiction is fading because the problem is becoming too scary."...

De-addiction Drug Works For Alcoholics Too

According to a study in UK it was found that de- addiction drug help to combat alcoholism. The US National Institutes of Health analyzed 1,383 people with Naltrexone//. This drug blocks craving for any sort of drug. The study results were reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This dru...

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...ction which will help in improving the efficacy of addiction treatments....

Clark Gable's Son a Drug Addict

...k Gable, now. She said: "My father is dying from addiction to crack cocaine. I know if my grandfather were alive today it would break his heart to see his only son killing himself with drugs. "He was just as good looking as his father, but now he's lost all his teeth and he is wasting away." (IANS)...

Kate Moss Glad her Drug Addiction was Exposed

...here seems to be a link between being prone to the addiction and being a celebrity....

Addiction of a different kind: college girls addicted to dieting

...ware and then stay with you for good. One such new addiction seen among college girls is dieting//. As per a new survey it has been found that 83 per cent of college girls go on diets to control their weight, regardless of whether they are normal weight, overweight or obese. Brenda Malinauskas from East Car...

Compulsive Gambling Not A Chronic Addiction Always: Research

...early 200 individuals who had reported of gambling addiction during their lifetime. The study was targeted at documentation of the recovery rate, natural recovery and treatment-seeking tendency. The researchers established pre-defined criteria for recovery- one year without any sort of pathological gambling sy...

Tackling of Cannabis Addiction

...has conducted a study which revealed that cannabis addiction can have a serious impact on the user's physical health// . It is one of the most dangerous types of mental health conditions. Cannabis abuse can lead to cardiovascular, respiratory and immune system problems. It can decrease short-term memory a...

Tackling Drug Addition in UK

... years. He said that the treatment given to heroin addiction or others are very good. Hence says that one should be able to have full range of options available. For those who respond to methadone they should be able to access methadone. Conservative Leader Annabel Goldie said that in Scotland there are not ...

Distinct Brain Sections Are Activated While Making Risky Decisions

...associated with all sorts of mental disorders like addiction or problem gambling. If it was possible to change the way people perceive risk and ambiguity by introducing a medication that could influence brain chemistry then we might be able to alleviate some types of pathological decision making. The experim...

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