Teaching Children To…
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Their numbers are rising, but their age is dropping: children and young adults who drink so much that they have to go to the hospital
NYT: Prescription Dr…
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Obama administration announced plans to fight prescription drug addiction nationally, noting that it was now killing more people than crack cocaine in the 1980s and heroin in the 1970s combined
New strategy for sti…
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Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have developed a new way to stimulate neuron production
Adult-Supervised Dri…
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ScienceDaily Allowing adolescents to drink alcohol under adult supervision does not appear to teach responsible drinking as teens get older. In fact, such a harm-minimization approach may actually lead to more drinking and alcohol-related consequences, according to a new…
Data On VIVITROL(R), The New FDA-Approved Medicati…
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28 Apr 2011
Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) today announced that results from the phase 3 clinical study of VIVITROL® (naltrexone for extended-release injectable suspension) in opioid dependence have been published by The Lancet. The six-month, phase 3 trial met its primary endpoint and showed significantly greater opioid-free weeks among patients treated with VIVITROL, compared to placebo. VIVITROL is the first and only non-addictive, non-narcotic, once-monthly medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of relapse to opioid dependence, following opioid detoxification. VIVITROL should be used…
OxyContin is the opiate-derived analgesic oxycodon…
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Now, the rate of prescription drug abuse is outpacing abuse of cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens and meth combined, analysis shows.
methamphetamine expo…
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A new study in fruit flies offers a broad view of the potent and sometimes devastating molecular events that occur throughout the body as a result of methamphetamine exposure
Epidemic: Facts abou…
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From 1997 to 2007, the milligram per person use of prescription opioids in the U.S. increased from 74 milligrams to 369 milligrams, an increase of 402 percent
Binge Drinking in Adolescence Causes Changes in Ad…
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2010) Alcohol exposure during adolescence alters the bodys ability to respond to stress in adulthood, according to new research in rats presented at Neuroscience 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held in San Diego. Because problems regulating stress are associated with behavioral and mood disorders, the findings may indicate that binge drinking in adolescence leads to increased risk of anxiety or depression in adulthood.
Binge drinking, defined as more than four or five drinks in a single session, typically begins around age 13 and peaks between ages 18 and 22. According to the…
