A common and potentially toxic additive called levamisole increases the addiction potential of cocaine by making the stimulant drug more rewarding to the brain, research from the Temple University School of Medicine indicates.
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Certain changes in brain function help distinguish people with sex addiction from others not affected by this condition, according to recent findings from a group of British and American researchers.
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Coming up with a medical treatment for cocaine abusers is one of the holy grails of addiction research, and a new study from Denmark provides hope for an antidote to cocaine addiction. Although the researchers caution that this isn’t a “wonder drug,” as long as patients were happy to continue with traditional rehab, it could
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The science of infidelity is still in its infancy, but recent studies have suggested that genetic factors may partly explain why some people are more likely than others to cheat on their romantic partners. However, genetic factors are never the only factors when it comes to human behavior, and these recent research results by no
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Are you addicted to shopping? If you’ve asked yourself this, you need to stop and consider what role shopping and spending play in your life. Shopping addiction, also known as compulsive shopping or compulsive buying disorder, is a type of behavioral addiction that is similar in many ways to drug addiction. Shopping may still be
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Providing paid work with regular drug tests is effective in helping addicts overcome addiction, according to currently available evidence. Contrary to the stereotype of the addict who’s unable to hold down a job, the body of evidence on “therapeutic workplaces” shows that they help about four out of five addicts stay clean. The approach does
When news hit that middle and high school student use of electronic cigarettes has tripled, alarm bells rang. After all, the numbers had doubled the previous year, and further sign of e-cigarettes steaming into the mainstream was that the Oxford Dictionaries 2014 word of the year was “vape” — the term for an e-cigarette.
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President Barack Obama recently announced in an interview that he would consider changing federal laws banning marijuana if enough states voted to legalize the drug. Twenty-three states have laws on the books allowing for medical marijuana, while Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Washington D.C. have fully legalized recreational marijuana. Currently these states are in violation
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Many more people could be saved from heroin and prescription opioid deaths if more frontline rescuers were trained to use the overdose reversal drug naloxone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced.
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An antidote for the brain and behavioral effects of cocaine addiction may be on the horizon, according to the current findings of a group of Danish researchers.
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