UTSA uncovers the disconnect between the brain's dopamine system and cocaine addiction
(San Antonio, Jan. 10, 2019) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio have revealed significant insight into ...
Tag: Addiction
Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction
Bad decision-making is a trait oftentimes associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use ...
New research shows that women with IBD are at greater risk of mental illness
For every 43 pregnancies, there is one extra case of mental illness in a woman with inflammatory bowel disease OTTAWA, ...
Controlling children's behavior with screen time leads to more screen time, study reveals
Researchers found children, whose parents dole out screen time as a reward or revoke it as punishment, spend more time ...
Tobacco use linked with higher use of opioids and sedatives
Tobacco is a known risk factor for the misuse of prescription opioids. In addition, concurrent use of opioids and sedative-hypnotics ...
Exposure to cannabis and stress in adolescence can lead to anxiety disorders in adulthood
The work carried out by the Neuropharmacology Laboratory highlight the influence of environmental factors such as stress on the harmful ...
Discovered: Different brain areas linked to smoking and drinking
Credit: University of Warwick Around 3 billion people worldwide currently drink or smoke - new research could help in both ...
'DeepSqueak' helps researchers decode rodent chatter
Software program published in NeuropsychopharmacologyCredit: Alice Gray Many researchers realize that mice and rats are social and chatty. They spend ...
Opioids fueled a doubling of suicides and overdoses in the US
Turning the tide demands improvements to pain care, mental health care and medication-assisted opioid addiction care, researchers say Suicides and ...
Recent research suggests new therapeutic role for caffeine in neuropsychiatric disorders
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 7, 2019-An important new article reviews recently discovered properties of ...
Prescribed opioids raise risk of pneumonia in patients with and without HIV
New Haven, Conn. -- Taking prescribed opioids raises the risk of pneumonia in individuals with and without HIV, a new ...
Alcohol-related treatment among American Indians and Alaska natives
Despite having high rates of abstention, American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) also have the highest lifetime alcohol use disorder ...
Opioid crisis roadmap overlooks gender
New Haven, Conn. - Women's Health Research at Yale (WHRY) is calling on a government committee to revise its report ...
Predictors of successfully quitting smoking among smokers registered at the quit smoking clinic at a public hospital in northeastern Malaysia
In the current issue of Family Medicine and Community Health (Volume 6, Number 4, 2018; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15212/FMCH.2018.0123, Nur Izzati Mohammad, ...
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