Narcotics Addiction News

Treatment for Cocaine Addiction?
Ivanhoe
Researchers put mice into a cage with two rooms; one of which gave them a small amount of cocaine. Once they knew the mice were addicted, researchers then began treating the mice with a compound already known to block the transfer of a compound ...

Could common cold cure cocaine addiction?
Medill Reports: Chicago
A vaccine to block cocaine users from getting high could be available for trials in humans within the year, but questions remain about its effectiveness to “cure” those with a history of addiction, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medical ...

BRW (subscription)
Cocaine blues: are you rewarding a corporate drug addiction?
BRW (subscription)
Fiona writes on workplace issues, including management, psychology, workplace design, human resources and recruitment. She is a former Work Space editor at The Australian Financial Review and has also covered property, technology, architecture and ...

Diet Soda Habit as Bad for Teeth as Meth Addiction, Study Claims
U.S. News & World Report
In his study, he found that a woman in her 30s who drank 2 liters of diet soda daily for three to five years experienced tooth rot and decay remarkably similar to that suffered by a 29-year-old methamphetamine addict and a 51-year-old habitual crack ...

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Survivors: Huntington couple wins battle with meth addiction
KLTV
A Huntington couple lost their cars, jobs, and children after a 10 year drug addiction. They are now thankful for the drug free life they are living. Jason and Donna Holtzclaw have survived their back and forth addictions. In 2010, authorities ...

Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
Muskegon attorney Terry Nolan expected to plead guilty to cocaine use
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
He is charged with cocaine use with a double penalty (second or subsequent offense). That carries a maximum possible sentence of two years in prison. Nolan's planned guilty plea will come two days after completion of the only case he's currently ...

Lil Scrappy Says He's 'Addicted To Weed'!!!
Juicy Magazine
Lil Scrappy Says He's 'Addicted To Weed'!!! After failing a court ordered drug test, Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta star, LIL SCRAPPY recently revealed that he is addicted to marijuana. According to TMZ, the Atlanta based rapper will enter a rehabilitation ...

New Compound Offers Hope Against Cocaine Addiction
Indiatimes.com
In one experiment, they placed mice in a cage with two rooms, and trained them to expect occasional doses of cocaine in one of the rooms. When the mice began spending most of their time in that room, it showed they had become addicted to cocaine.

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Survivors: Huntington couple wins battle with meth addiction
KTRE
A Huntington couple lost their cars, jobs, and children after a 10 year drug addiction. They are now thankful for the drug free life they are living. Jason and Donna Holtzclaw have survived their back and forth addictions. In 2010, authorities ...

A Risky Habit We Shouldn't Encourage
New York Times
About 9 percent of people who use cannabis become addicted. The younger one starts, the greater the risk of addiction. Cannabis withdrawal includes craving, trouble sleeping, poor appetite, anxiety, malaise, tension and depressed mood that impairs ...

NEWS.com.au
Sweetener high-fructose corn syrup tests show food addiction similar to ...
NEWS.com.au
The research, presented overnight at the 2013 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, argues that just as some people become addicted to cocaine after taking it and others do not, the same is true with foods like HFCS. Those behind the food addiction hypothesis ...
High fructose syrup addictive as cocaine and linked to rise in obesity and ...Sunday World
Sugary syrup similar to cocaineNewstalk ZB
Syrup 'has drug-like effect'Herald Scotland

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CBS News
Molecule may be able to block cocaine addiction
CBS News
"Not only did CGP3466B help confirm the details of cocaine's action, but it also may become the first drug approved to treat cocaine addiction." Cocaine use has been falling in the United States in recent years. A 2011 government survey found that ...

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Medical Daily
Sweeteners create cocaine-like addictions: Canadian study
globalnews.ca
TORONTO – Could sugary syrups used widely in processed food and drinks cause the same feel-good changes to your brain as cocaine? A Canadian researcher, who fed rats the illicit drug along with Oreos, suggests that food addiction is real and could help ...
High Fructose Corn Syrup Addictive Like Cocaine, Says ResearcherScience 2.0
Unwhole Foods: 'Food Addiction' May Explain Global Obesity EpidemicMedical Daily
Global obesity epidemic linked to addiction to unhealthy foodZee News
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Drugs Are My Anti-Drug: Cocaine Addiction Could Be Cured By Promising New ...
Medical Daily
While the underpinnings of cocaine addiction remain elusive, this addictive substance is known to stir the mind's pleasure centers by increasing the abundance of dopamine and serotonin. These brain chemicals send signals between nerve cells, but having ...

TMZ.com
Lil Scrappy Fails Urine Test -- I'm Addicted to Marijuana
TMZ.com
Lil Scrappy believes he's addicted to weed ... and after failing a court-ordered drug test, the rapper will enter a rehab facility for treatment, TMZ has learned. Scrappy appeared in a Georgia courtroom moments ago, where officials revealed a urine ...
Lil Scrappy: I'm Addicted To Weed!News One
Lil Scrappy Fails Urine Test, Cites "Addiction to Marijuana"The Hollywood Gossip
Lil Scrappy Is Going To Rehab To Fight Off A Weed AddictionCinema Blend
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RedOrbit
High Fructose Corn Syrup Addictive Like Cocaine, Says Researcher
Science 2.0
Leri, and others have instead suggested individual differences in vulnerability to addiction. Surveys of consumption of cocaine show that though many individuals try these drugs, only a small percentage of them become addicted. Leri set out to show ...
Sweeteners create cocaine-like addictions: Canadian studyglobalnews.ca
Global obesity epidemic linked to addiction to unhealthy foodBusiness Standard
Global Obesity Epidemic Due To Love Affair With Junk FoodRedOrbit

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The Guardian
Why this global fascination with the Toronto mayor's alleged cocaine use?
The Guardian
The whole thing started last week when Gawker announced that it had seen a video in which Toronto mayor Rob Ford was filmed inhaling crack cocaine and uttering homophobic slurs about the leader of Canada's Liberal party. The story became an instant ...
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford fires chief of staffCBC.ca
Watch: Toronto teen-art collective re-enacts the Rob Ford scandalGlobe and Mail
Toronto teens reenact the alleged Rob Ford videoCanada.com
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Meth program teaches harsh reality of addiction to youth
Your Houston News
Melvin Cates, a youth pastor at Central Baptist Church in Livingston, led part of the discussion on drugs with Eastside Elementary students. The “Don't METH With Me” program sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Livingston and Cleveland is designed to teach ...

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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Civil liberties erode when drug use widens
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Marijuana smoking during pregnancy has been shown to decrease birth weight, most likely due to the effects of carbon monoxide on the developing fetus.[v] Marijuana addicts 1 out of every 6 children who ever try the drug.[vi] Marijuana affects the ...
A hemispheric view of pot lawWinnipeg Free Press
A Look at the OAS Report on Drug Policy in the AmericasCato Institute (blog)

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Addiction counselor: Drug culture squanders freedom earned by our heroes ...
MLive.com
Youths smoke marijuana at the Denver 4/20 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 that promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, ...

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