Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain

Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain – Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains addiction pharmacologically and looks at how drugs of abuse take control of the r…

Handle Your Prescription Medication Properly

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According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse: In 2010 approximately 7.0 million persons were current users of psychotherapeutic drugs taken nonmedically. 2.7 percent of the U.S. population. Although prescription drugs can be powerful allies, they …
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Group aims to curtail prescription drug abuse

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According to a survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one in 20 high school seniors reported using OxyContin for nonmedical purposes in 2010 and nearly one in every 12 reported abusing Vicodin. Seventy percent said they were given them by a …
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WikiLeaks and the War on Whistleblowers

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She has advocated making Iceland a haven for press freedom and was the chief sponsor of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (now the International Modern Media Institute). A contributor to and … The use of informants who cooperate in exchange for …
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Brain stimulation may treat cocaine addiction

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When the researchers "turned on" the inactive neurons using optogenetic stimulation, the compulsive cocaine-seeking behaviour stopped, author Antonello Bonci of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Maryland told AFP. Conversely, they could also turn …
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