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Patients with excited delirium often are administered ketamine by EMS before arriving at the hospital. Many of them are intoxicated or are using illicit substances, which may alter the properties of ketamine. A study…
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Diclofenac and other NSAIDs may limit the passage of narcolepsy medication and illicit party drug GHB to the brain, decreasing the potential for fatal overdose, researchers find.
More than 21 million Americans suffer from alcohol or drug abuse. Every year some of those people lose their lives. According to ...
Adults with ADHD are at higher risk of a wide range of physical conditions, including nervous system, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and metabolic diseases, according to a large register-based study in Sweden.
Humans are social beings, we thrive when we have meaningful social interactions and connections with other people. The impact of ...
Whether the substance involved is crack cocaine or alcohol or a behavior such as gambling, the common denominator of all ...
A new pilot study has shown when a female athlete has a concussion injury during the phase of her menstrual cycle when progesterone is highest, she feels less stress. Feeling stressed is one symptom of a concussion…
A team of neuroscientists is uncovering how psychedelics affect brain activity. New work shows a strong connection in rodent models between brain activity and behaviors resulting from psychedelic treatment, a step…
It is frequently said that addiction occurs when drugs “hijack” the brain. It’s hard to nail down what that means, but it ...
The Netherlands, United States, Australia and New Zealand are consuming the highest amounts of designer 'party' drugs, according to wastewater samples taken from eight countries over the New Year period.
Recreational drinking, smoking, and drug use is linked to premature heart disease in young people, particularly younger women.
Addiction is a condition that has long baffled physicians and philosophers, to say nothing of those struggling with it and those ...
There are many theories about the causes of addiction, the use and abuse of legal and illegal psychoactive substances. Biology ...
While the broader public may have gotten its first glimpse this week of the troubling and addictive nature of trading apps like ...
Researchers have described how they used advanced genetic engineering techniques to transform a bacterial protein into a new research tool that may help monitor serotonin transmission with greater fidelity than current…
Neuroscientists have made major advances in their quest to study the brain; however, there are no tools to precisely measure the brain's principal output -- behavior -- in freely moving animals. Researchers present…
A non-hallucinogenic version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine, with potential for treating addiction, depression and other psychiatric disorders, has been developed by researchers.
In a sign that designer drugs are becoming more prevalent in Australia, synthetic cathinones -- commonly known as 'bath salts' -- have been detected in the nation's wastewater in the largest study of its kind in the…
Pathological gambling is more akin to a gambling addiction, but we found that only a tiny percentage of our national participants could be classed as such. What we did report was that 0.9 percent of ...
Addiction is a complex disease, but nearly a century of scientific study has helped researchers come to a deeper understanding ...
“If you build it, they will come” doesn’t apply just to a baseball stadium in a cornfield. I believe that the same ...
The reward pathway of the brain causes feelings of happiness but is also involved in behavioral disorders like schizophrenia and addiction. A breakthrough study has now identified the role of a protein called Npas4 in…
A small study concludes that caution is warranted for users of 'high CBD, low THC' cannabis products.
Opioid overdose deaths in Connecticut doubled in the past 6 years, largely driven by use of multiple drugs together, according to a team of researchers.
The painful overuse injury called swimmer's shoulder, common in competitive swimmers, may be caused by excessive swimming distance during training along with a culture in competitive swimming that sublimates pain…
A seven-year project monitoring illicit drug use in 37 countries via wastewater samples shows that cocaine use was skyrocketing in Europe in 2017 and Australia had a serious problem with methamphetamine.
While products of tobacco combustion are the main cause of smoking-induced disease, nicotine addiction sustains tobacco use (8).
Project SAVE stands for Substance Abuse Visionary Program. The pilot program aims to get people help for their addictions.
You’ve probably heard that we’re all spending too much time on our phones and computers. The average American stares at a ...
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