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What are treatments for tobacco dependence?
How to Overcome Alcohol Addiction Part II
This substance abuse, like tobacco, can start in the teen years for various reasons. In fact, survey results from the National Institute of Health indicate that 28.6 percent of the 12th graders and 40 percent of the college students reported binge drinking. Again, “binge drinking” is defined as five or more drinks on the same occasion. Surveys reveal that binge drinkers can down as many as six to nine drinks in one setting...
Can CBD Reduce Cravings And Stress In Opioid Users?
Researchers wanted to know if CBD can help people who are former opioid users resist relapse. Their double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial suggests CBD can help reduce stress and cravings.
Heroin Overdose 'Cure' Exists, But Can Users Find It?
Naloxone has proven effective in reversing heroin, prescription pill overdoses, but getting it in the right hands is key.
Locking Up Drug “Dealers” to Save Users Doesn’t Make Anyone Safer
For a real solution, we must first address the economic conditions that drive people into illicit economies.
Illicit drug users turn to Fitbit, Apple Watch devices to prevent overdoses
Health professionals say that overdose deaths can be tied to heart attacks, strokes, inflammation of the heart muscle, deterioration of the ability of the heart to contract, and aortic ruptures.
What the Kids Are Watching: Fewer Tobacco Ads, But More Alcohol Ads in Movies
Teens may be seeing more drinking on screen, but will that lead them to have more problems with alcohol? In a new study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, scientists studied the placement and prevalence of alcohol and tobacco products in 1,400 films that were among the top 100 box-offi...
How to Fix the Heart
Notice that there is nothing inherently wrong with alcohol, tobacco, food, credit cards, or sexual desires. What is wrong is with our heart. Tearing up the credit card is not going to keep our heart from materialism. Making the food have less fat is not going to make our heart less greedy for food...
Preventing Teen Tobacco Use: An Interview With the FDA
The FDA has launched an ambitious campaign to prevent teens from initiating tobacco use. On the basis of extensive research, they have good reason to be optimistic that this one will work.
Study: Teens choose marijuana over alcohol and tobacco
A new study shows that teenagers are increasingly experimenting with marijuana before beer or cigarettes. Is that a good thing?
Traffickers, peddlers, mules or users?
Are Tobacco And Alcohol More Harmful Than Illicit Drugs?
A new report revealed the biggest threats to human health around the world.
Is a Drug User Only Hurting Himself?
A look at the greater damage cause by drug abuse from the addicts family to the community at large.
Painkillers May Increase The Risk Of Homicide In Some Users
New findings published in the journal World Psychiatry show the potential dangers of taking certain painkillers and antidepressants. Could these drugs actually affect our nervous system, increase the risk that some users might be exceedingly violent?
Who’s responsible for alcohol addiction? Makers or users?
If Big Pharma is going to settle out of court and is found guilty for opioid addictions, then there is absolutely no reason why big liquor shouldn’t be found guilty of alcohol addiction.
Health workers urged to increase help for anabolic steroid users
Public Health England advises councils and health practitioners to engage more effectively with young men abusing image-enhancing drugs
Can a drug dealer be liable for causing harm to a user? Ask the lawyer
In a typical civil suit, the burden of proof is by a preponderance of the evidence. Liability under the Drug Dealer Liability Act, however, requires clear and convincing evidence, which is more cha…
Marijuana could put users at risk for addiction, researchers find
Contrary to the belief that marijuana is a “safe drug,” a researcher at FIU’s Center for Children and Families has found that the use of this drug actually
Dramatic effects seen in brains of students who are casual marijuana users
Young adults who used marijuana only recreationally showed significant abnormalities in two key brain regions that are important in emotion and motivation, scientists report.
