Phoenix House Offers Hope for Addicts in Hamptons Community

Phoenix House Benefit Honoring Haley and Jason Binn East Hampton , Saturday, June 27, 2009, 6-8 PM NEW YORK, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- "Addiction runs its devastating course through every community - including the Hamptons," says Howard Meitiner , President and CEO of Phoenix House ...

Brain Scans Show Differences in Cocaine Addicts

Regions affected when thinking about drugs could be targets for treatments, researchers say THURSDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) --Cocaine users appear to have less activity in the parts of their brains that monitor behaviors and emotions, a finding that researchers think may make them mo...

Why dopamine freezes parkinson patients and drives drug addicts

CHICAGO -- Parkinson's disease and drug addiction are polar opposite diseases, but both depend upon dopamine in the brain. Parkinson's patients don't have enough of it; drug addicts get too much of it. Although the importance of dopamine in these disorders has been well known, the way it works has...

Coffee Addicts With Baby, Take Heart

Coffee if drunk in moderation offers no harm to an expectant mother, in terms of baby weight or gestational period, say researchers.// This study performed by researcher Dr Bodil Hammer Bech and team from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and published online by the British Medical Journal. ...

Only Half of Addicts in American Families Seek Help

A survey of American families has revealed that only half of drug- or alcohol-addicted family members seek help for their problem// but doing so often gives positive results to 82% of them. On interviewing about 902 U.S. adults in a recent Gallup poll, the USA Today/HBO Family Drug Addiction pol...

Needles Given To Drug Addicts Go Missing In Scotland

Statistics released by the Scottish Executive show that around 2.9 million clean needles were dispensed for drug users, but only 1.9 million were returned thus sparking a shortage of a million needles and concerns over hepatitis C as well. // ...

Over 10,000 Drug Addicts In Meerut: Survey

Meerut, June 5. There are over 10,000 drug addicts in the age group of 13 and 35 in Meerut, a survey by a local NGO running de-addiction clinics says.// These youths spend over Rs 1,500 in a single day on brown sugar and other drugs like morphine, Avil and Phenergan, according to the NGO 'Jag...

Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

With their ankles shackled, scores of heroin addicts hobble around the crowded yard of their rehabilitation centre in a unique de-addiction programme in this Manipur district bordering Myanmar in northeastern India. // Two heavy China-made padlocks that are difficult to pick secure the thick ...

Drug Addicts In US Expected To Double By 2020

Drug addiction is becoming a significant public health probelm in the U.S. A U.S. government survey has estimated that the number of individuals with drug addiction// problems will double to approximately 5 million, by the end of 2020. Nearly 2.5 million Americans have been said to have encou...

Adolescent Drinkers Turned Addicts Cause the Exchequer More

According to a study conducted by Susan E. Foster, M.S.W., and colleagues from The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, New York, //found that there is a sudden increase in the number of adolescent drinkers. Statistics show that about $23 billion is contributed y...

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Addicts in Medical Technology

Arizona Doctor Offers New Addiction Drug Treatment for Meth Addicts Showing More Than 60% Success Rate

Dr. Gregory Ellison, Director of Advanced Medical Center, Licensed to Administer PROMETA(R) PHOENIX, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- With Arizona facing a critical crisis of methamphetamine use, Dr. Gregory Ellison, Director of Advanced Medical Center, has identified a very p...

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Begins Enrollment for Its U.S. Phase II Clinical Trial of CPP-109 in Patients with Cocaine Addiction

...ne levels in the normal range without impairing normal dopamine-based mechanisms. It is also thought that this effect may reduce craving, an effect in addicts which makes it very difficult for them to stop their drug habit. About Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. is ...

Addicts in Medical Dictionary

Addiction

...y with an over 70% success ... Find addiction information on alcoholism, drug abuse, gambling, smoking, sex addiction , physical dependency, addicts , quitting, treatment options, and more. Most recently, biological explanations of addiction have become popular. ... Addiction represents a...

Addicts in Biological News

Researchers find link between nicotine addiction and autism

...ould affect the guidance of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors to their functional destinations in nerve cells, perhaps increasing receptors in tobacco addicts while decreasing them in autistic individuals, thus increasing susceptibility to these devastating neurological disorders," Anand said. The finding...

'Erasing' drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses

...said, "The results suggest that efforts should be made to develop drugs that could be given in a controlled clinical or treatment environment in which addicts would have their most potent drug memories reactivated. Such treatments would be expected to diminish the effects of those memories in the future and...

Unlocking mystery of why dopamine freezes Parkinson's patients

...disease and drug addiction are polar opposite diseases, but both depend upon dopamine in the brain. Parkinson's patients don't have enough of it; drug addicts get too much of it. Although the importance of dopamine in these disorders has been well known, the way it works has been a mystery. New research f...

To slow AIDS in Russia, treat HIV-positive addicts, Stanford study says

...mportant implications for Russia's approach to combating AIDS. Antiretroviral therapy is expanding in Russia, but it remains to be seen whether drug addicts will receive treatment, Owens said. "Our main message is that really to have an impact on the epidemic, you have to treat both the drug users and no...

Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction

... Costly methadone treatment for heroin addicts could be replaced by a substitute painkiller that is half the price, safer and less toxic. In a study spanning three and a half years, researchers ...

Genetically altered mice no longer like cocaine

...ey protein that controls cocaine's effects in the body, which may help scientists develop medications that achieve the same results and therefore help addicts overcome their dependence. Right now there are no such treatments on the market, said Howard Gu, the study's lead author and an associate professor...

How the brain learns to become addicted

...the animal is to initiate drug-seeking during periods of abstinence. "Because it is during periods of abstinence, not periods of intoxication, that addicts seek treatment, the peptide signaling pathways for orexin and CRF may prove to be fruitful targets in the search for addiction medications." Bonci ...

Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges

...dies and "soaked up like a sponge," according to the researcher. "If the mechanism we proposed proves true in humans, then it will help explain why addicts go on prolonged binges, requiring more frequent intake and ever-increasing amounts of the drug in order to achieve a high," says Janda, who led the st...

Key Trigger Of Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms Found

...h-chattering, uncontrolled shaking, and jumpiness. Such drugs could become part of the arsenal of medicines and behavioral techniques aimed at helping addicts kick their habits. To zero in on the machinery underlying withdrawal symptoms, researchers led by Elena Bagley and Macdonald Christie of the Pain ...

Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use

...search also showed that Ibogaine was quite effective in preventing relapse, or "falling off the wagon" -- the vulnerability of recovered alcoholics or addicts to return to uncontrolled drinking or drug use when exposed to the drug of abuse months or even years after breaking the habit. In this analysis, the ...

Addicts in Biological Technology

Addiction Treatment Finds Success Treating Brain Deficiencies through the Belly

...was conceived upon the realization that almost all addicts suffer from some level of gastrointestinal (GI) pr...MS, Executive Director of the center. "Active addicts put a lot of toxins in their bodies. These toxins..., less expensive service for heroin and painkiller addicts under the age of 30 because data shows these patie...

A Better Tomorrow Treatment Center Inc., Forterus Inc.'s Behavioral Healthcare Subsidiary, is the First in the Nation to Offer DNA-Customized Treatment for Individuals with a Genetic Predisposition for Addictive Behavior

...ling, group therapy, cognitive therapy and psychotherapy," said Jerrod Menz, A Better Tomorrow's president, adding that roughly a third of the world's addicts are genetically predisposed to addiction because of genetic causes involving the dysfunction of their dopamine receptors. "This doesn't mean they wi...

Addicts in Biological Dictionary

Representativeness

...ness ... Search completed in 0.133 seconds. ... The purpose of this paper is to assess the representativeness of the longitudinal surveys of Drug addicts and Alcoholic (DA&A) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) ... A Flux Atlas for Representativeness and Statistical Extrapolation of the ... Rep...