Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
The findings lend additional credence to a hypothesis arguing that food and drug addiction are not that different after all, at least as far as the chemistry of the brain is concerned. Details of the new study appear in the February 9… Continue reading
Kitchen Seeking Grant for Homeless
Kitchen seeking grant for homeless
A Springfield nonprofit is seeking federal funds to expand its program for chronically homeless people without the traditional requirement that they abstain from drugs or alcohol. The Kitchen is seeking $ 134,974 from the U.S. … A study Tsemberis co …
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Celebrity Deaths Prompt Necessary Discussion of Drug Addiction
Celebrity deaths prompt necessary discussion of drug addiction
It has come to point where collectively, we must re-address how we partake in discussions about drug addiction. For a very long time the general public – bereft of an addictive disposition – has viewed drug addiction as ill-informed, foolish, selfish …… Continue reading
Experts Increasingly Contemplate End of Smoking
Experts increasingly contemplate end of smoking
The Food and Drug Administration launched a new youth tobacco prevention campaign last week. At about the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention debuted a third, $ 60-million round of its successful anti-tobacco ad campaign — this …
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Dems Rally Around Marijuana in 2014 Push
Dems rally around marijuana in 2014 push
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 established the drug classification, or “scheduling,” system which groups drugs into five categories depending on a given substance's “medical use and the drug's abuse or dependency potential.” The Act places …
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I Need Help With My Drug Addiction, but Have a Problem With 12 Step Groups!!!?
Question by Kim T: I need help with my drug addiction, but have a problem with 12 step groups!!!?
I have been using drugs for years. I was clean for almost a year and was going to meetings but had a hard time believing everything they preached,… Continue reading
What Is the New Drug to Treat Parkinson Disease?
Question by jeffrey a: what is the new drug to treat parkinson disease?
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Answer by j_ardinger
Treatments
Unlike for many other neurodegenerative diseases, there is effective treatment for the symptoms of Parkinsons disease. For most patients, these treatments can provide several years of satisfactory treatment.… Continue reading
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Scientists with the Universite de Bordeaux in France discovered in a new study that food and marijuana cravings share the same neural mechanism in the human brain. The team found that the same receptors light up in mice when they are deprived… Continue reading
Merry X-Mas Fellow Alcoholics!?!?
Question by tazman: Merry X-mas fellow Alcoholics!?!?
Tiz the season & i feel the need to share some of my story in hopes of maybe helping you too stay sober.My father passed away a couple years ago before i got sober & was also the straw that broke the camels… Continue reading
Have Your Say on Drug Abuse.?
Question by hot_but_taken_by_my_man: Have Your Say on Drug Abuse.?
I need to report on Drugs and drug abuse I was curious to know other people’s perspective on it. so please let me know!
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Answer by eventfulnights82
ii wrote a whole essay on legalizing drugs…if… Continue reading