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Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Few Takers in China

...ng ailments from HIV to cancer, even effective for addicts who are greatly benefited by TCM for effective deaddiction. Clearly the Chinese are slowly changing sides to western medicine, infact a recent survey has shown that 72% of Chinese would rather opt for modern medicine in place of TCM. China's Minist...

Spiritual Leaders Join Together to Fight Against HIV/AIDS in India

...India was considering the option of providing drug addicts with 'safe needles' to bring down HIV/AIDS infection from the use of the same needle by several people repeatedly. 'The health ministry is in consultation with the ministry of law and the home ministry on how to do this legally,' he said. Ramados...

Homosexuality, drug abuse increasing HIV in India: study

...ort points to continued courting of danger by drug addicts using injectable substances. The HIV/AIDS Update points out that in Chennai, 31 percent of injecting drug users were found to be HIV-infected. Another study of men seeking treatment for sexually transmitted infections in Mumbai clinics showed tha...

Best HIV-Prevention Programs Help People Build Skills

... programs — which provide clean needles to IV-drug addicts — or substance-abuse programs. Nor do the programs examined include those aimed specifically at kids in school (because they’re funded separately) or those that rely solely on HIV testing or counseling of sexual partners of HIV patients. (The CDC a...

Trouble For Lone Ranger Junkies

...e journal Psychology of Addictive Behavior. //Drug addicts who tend to use substance like marijuana, alcohol, and cigarettes in solitude, tend to develop behavioral and health problems at a younger age, and to have a harder time quitting, as opposed to those who do so, in a social setting or in groups. The...

Painkiller Dihydrocodeine May Replace Methodone In Treating Heroin Addicts

...hydrocodeine has been used for years to treat drug addicts and is often preferred in situations where methadone is seen as hazardous, such as police custody or prison. However, its effectiveness had never been tested before. RI...

Raging Fire Consumes 45 Lives in a Drug Rehab Hospital in Moscow

...ke asphyxiation. Most of those who died were young addicts below the age of 35.Some were HIV patients and few...e. Apparently this gate was locked to prevent drug addicts from leaving the premises. Some windows on the second floor of this five storey hospital building we...

Addicts in India Taking to Pharmaceutical Drugs: UNAIDS

...ir new high, experts said here Monday. Many such addicts in India are into preparations like buprenorphine,... to 60,000 and Nepal to 20,000. The number of such addicts is less than 1,000 in Sri Lanka. M. Suresh Kumar, senior researcher at the Centre for Harm Reduct...

Rise from Those Ashes

...eds of teenagers who start smoking early end up as addicts and go on to develop or even die from smoking related ailments. Every day an average Briton lights up 14 cigarettes and 450 children take to smoking. Research has revealed that about 20% of Britain’s 15-year-olds (16% of boys and 25% of girls) ...

Tihar Jail Gets De-Addiction Centre

...nister said: ‘With this de-addiction centre, drug addicts scattered in various jails would be shifted to thi... could receive treatment from day one. The drug addicts will be segregated from others and treatment plans for them would include detoxification and rehabil...

Memory’s Link to Recovering from Addictio

...fter transcription factor levels return to normal, addicts may remain hypersensitive to the drug and the cues...presence. This can heighten the risk of relapse in addicts long after they stop taking the drug. Knowing more about how addiction works in the brain has not...

Genetic-Key to Stop Heroin Addicts

...ey for improving treatment success rates of heroin addicts around// the world. They have discovered a gene t...l Pharmacology and Therapeutics. When the heroin addicts were tested, it was found that 25% of the people with a mutation of the gene can cope on lower doses...

Ten Percent of Tihar Jail Inmates are Drug Addicts

...," Gupta told reporters. "Over 61 percent of the addicts were used to drugs for more than five years," he said, adding that 46.37 percent of addicts have confessed that they took to drugs due to peer pressure and another 26.67 percent took to it due...

A New Approach to Manage Opiate Addiction

...severe pain, nausea, agitation and sweats motivate addicts to continue taking drugs. The findings// of a new study suggest new approaches to reduce withdrawal symptoms. A new study finds that disrupting the brain's stress-response mechanism exacerbates behavioral withdrawal symptoms in mice, and that givin...

Indonesia En Route to HIV Epidemic, Experts Warn

...er incidences are seen among a special group- drug addicts and sex workers. Though measures against the v...titution and the repercussions are been seen. Drug addicts and sex workers are spreading the extent of the virus to terrifying distances. Says Bjorn Melgaar...

Mobile Phone Addiction may Cause Psychological Problems

...lls or messages do not elicit a response. Mobile addicts tend to neglect important activities (job or studies), drift away from friends and close family, deny the problem and think about their mobile constantly when they do not have it with them, the study says. "Most mobile-addicts are people with low s...

Drug Addicts-you Could Blame Your Genes

...out the notion. It has long been known that drug addicts have a paucity or shortage of dopamine receptors- areas of the brain that are latched upon by drugs such as cocaine and heroin, to produce their effect. Impulsiveness or excessive sensation seeking behavior has been previously linked to drug addict...

Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

...d. And how does one categorize alcoholics and drug addicts is another question. It's a chicken-or-egg world for the mentally-ill homeless. Are they on the street because they are immobilized by severe depression or is deep depression the consequence of being on the street? Any tendency towards a psychol...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

...e termed "heavy drinkers". About 80 percent of the addicts in the district are below poverty line. "An average tribal family spends between 60-70 percent of its income on alcohol. It was found that if a person is a 'desi' (local) liquor addict, he spends a minimum of Rs.400 a month on it. But for a person ...

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

...at difficulties in prison, but people such as drug addicts and the homeless may find their healthcare improves//, according to a study in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. Researchers led by the late Gill Hek from the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the University of the West of England, Bristol...

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