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Drug Addiction Recovery Buffered by Spirituality

... years. They were interviewed in depth about their addiction recovery experiences. Dr. Alexandre Laudet, Ph.... study is to give hope to everyone struggling with addiction and to support their families, and guide clinicians toward developing individualized programs to max...

Continual Fear Linked to Genetic Alterations in the Brain

...as also linked a part of the brain responsible for addiction with anxiety and social awkwardness. This substance, named as BDNF, retains the controls that predict whether fear can actually turn its target into a potential recluse. The Texas researchers exposed small brown mice to fear, of greater intensity th...

Clinic Helps Women Lead Normal Lives

... heroin will result in withdrawal symptoms. Heroin addiction by the mother results in the baby being underweigh...r addictions. It is not possible to give up a drug addiction abruptly, and substitutes like methadone are usually given in the early stages for those who use opi...

Reality Of Lung Cancer May Discourage Smoking

...tient giving up smoking. But the power of nicotine addiction should not be underestimated either, as the sight of a suffering relative fails to have the necessary impact on many of those who watch them suffering. The social and psychological factors should also be taken into account in smoking cessation progra...

Smokers Encouraged To Give Up The Habit

...ept confidential. The researchers belonging to the addiction center will contact the smokers after a period of five weeks to enquire about the efficacy of the patches. The Health Promotion Ministry is expected to incur an expenditure of $3 million towards the program. Pfizer will take care of the supply of the...

Nicotine Vaccine May Help Smokers To Quit Smoking

...e pleasurable effects from smoking and reduces the addiction to nicotine, it said. The vaccine appears to be a safe, well tolerated and potentially effective aid in helping people quit smoking, the report said. Researchers studied 68 current smokers for 38 weeks who received one of three different doses of th...

Cocaine Kates Lover Wants to Kick his Drug Habit

...er Pete Doherty says he will have to beat his drug addiction if he wants to get back girlfriend Kate Moss.In September this year 31 year super model Kate Moss // was who I worth $ 30 million was caught snorting cocaine by The Daily Mirror newspaper in a drugs and drink session with her lover Pete Doherty....

Genes Affect Drinking Behavior Of Smokers

...e same chromosome regions which are connected with addiction to alcohol, according to a study. The connection which exists between alcohol consumption and smoking may // partially be because of the genetic risk factors which overlap. Environmental factors also contribute towards alcoholism. Drinking and smokin...

UN Fears Earthquake Victims Could Turn To Drugs

...are at high risk of developing drug dependence and addiction - maybe as a result of prescribed medications to the injured for the relief of extreme pain or otherwise due to discomfort and boredom amongst displaced populations after a disaster," he said. Although, no large scale drug abuse cases have come to li...

Financial Allowances Being Offered To Poor Vietnamese HIV Carriers

...ggressive fights against social evils such as drug addiction and prostitution by the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee. This move is anticipated to foster socio-economic development. In response to the request, the local health agencies have been involved in campaigns to raise ...

Love And Drug Addiction Share The Same Chemistry

...chers have come with a novel finding that love and addiction may go hand in hand due to shared similarities. For example, the physiological effects manifested as a result of dopamine release// (neurotransmitter) after having seen somebody attractive are nothing more than a simulation of the effects observed fo...

Alcohol: Liver's worst enemy

...n the decrease,' said Colin Drummond, professor of addiction psychiatry at St George's Hospital Medical School in south London. 'Drug taking only kills a few hundred in comparison, yet the government spends more on tackling that. Drinking, by comparison, is on the rise and too little is being done to help.' ...

Dominant Discoveries and The Darker Side Of Methamphetamine Drug Addiction

...phetamine addiction. Managing methamphetamine drug addiction has been a significant challenge to the scientific...tiveness of bupropion for treating methamphetamine addiction in humans, the Phase II clinical trails of which have already offered a new ray of hope. Out of the ...

Heavy alcoholism has adverse affects on sex life in healthy males

...g man was generally known. It has now emerged that addiction to alcohol can adversely affect sex life and the sperm quality in healthy men as well. // A new study by Indian scientists led by Biochemist Koonakapalyam Ramasami Muthusami in Coimbatore has found that chronic alcoholism decreases the level of tes...

Detrimental Effect Of Chronic Alcoholism On Male Fertility

...ics were selected as controls. Before starting the addiction treatment for alcoholics, venous blood and semen samples were collected. Complete blood counts, biochemical parameters, levels of the male fertility hormones FSH, LH, T, PRL, P, and E2 in blood, and semen parameters were followed during the study. ...

Lawmakers alerted on new tobacco control policies by research team

... of how young people become vulnerable to nicotine addiction and the harmful effects of smoking, policy makers and educators now have an unprecedented opportunity to adopt bold new measures for preventing adolescent smoking and nicotine addiction, according to a researcher. The following recommendations have...

Drug Pramipexole Usage Linked To Gambling Addiction In Parkinsons Patients

...in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and severe addiction to gambling // . Pathologic gambling which is a severe addiction to gambling is a very rare phenomenon mostly occurring due to usage of anti-Parkinson’s drug and the...

Neurobiology Provides Answers To Block Memory-Related Drug Cravings

Drug addiction can be better handled following discovery of a nov...relapse and suggests a new strategy for developing addiction treatments.The study employed rats that shuttled between two distinctive environments, one which off...

Brain Chemical Identified For Drug Dependent Behavior

...velopment of drug craving that can perpetuate both addiction and relapse. This neural system may be activated by environmental cues that cause addicts to relapse back to drug-taking behavior even after successfully going through rehabilitation and achieving abstinence. Source: NIH ...

Sensations Generated By Cocaine And Methamphetamine Abuse Are Not Same.

...ay impact development of medication treatments for addiction to these two very different stimulants. The study examined the onset, pattern and duration of the response to cocaine in 14 cocaine dependent volunteers and the response to methamphetamine in 11 methamphetamine dependent volunteers. None of the volu...

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