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American Bio Medica Corporation (NASDAQ:ABMC) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted CLIA waived status to the Company's Rapid TOX® point of collection drug test product line. The waiver applies to all 14 drugs that the Company currently tests for in addition to two different cut-off ...
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Whilst the Australian government should be applauded for increasing the tax on premixed spirits, the authors of a Comment in this week's edition of The Lancet say it should be part of a battery of strategies to reduce both binge and excessive drinking....
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Substance abuse is an unrelenting evil that destroys lives, ruins families, and endangers neighborhoods. During National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, we emphasize our commitment to alcohol and drug addiction prevention. This month is also an opportunity to recognize those who have had the courage to combat and overcome ...
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A new study has unraveled some of the mysteries of the cocaine-addicted brain and may pave the way for the design of more effective treatments for drug addiction. The research, published by Cell Press in the August 28 issue of the journal Neuron, identifies specific brain mechanisms that underlie addiction-related ...
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Increased connections among brain cells caused by excessive drug use may represent the body's defense mechanism to combat addiction and related behaviors, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. Previous studies have shown that repeated use of drugs such as cocaine, amphetamines and nicotine increase the number of anatomical ...
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Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that in a given week, over 10 million Americans are taking opioids, and more than 4 million are taking them regularly (at least five days per week, for at least four weeks). These findings appear in the August 31 issue of ...
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1. A New Striatal Microcircuit Matthew A. Sullivan, Huanmian Chen, and Hitoshi Morikawa Cholinergic neurons in the striatum generally fire tonically, but stop firing briefly when the animal receives a reward. The physiological mechanisms responsible for these pauses, which are thought to be important for associative learning, are not clear. ...
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A new study from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University sheds light on why smokers' intentions to quit "cold turkey" often fizzle out within days or even hours. If a smoker isn't yearning for a cigarette when he makes the decision to kick the habit-and most ...
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Funding for needle-exchange programs in Washington, D.C., is beginning to reach groups that run the programs eight months after Congress lifted a ban of city funding for needle-exchange programs, but it is unclear how effective the increased funding will be at reducing the spread of HIV in the district, the...
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New insight has been obtained regarding how alcohol during pregnancy might affect fetal development, according to research performed at the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, funded by the March of Dimes. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, affects ...
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Leading child advocates have called for a new approach to tackling child abuse and neglect amid rising rates of abuse notifications and children being brought into State care. The arguments for a new approach are set out in the latest edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public ...
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Many people hold mistaken beliefs about what causes cancer, tending to inflate the threat from environmental factors that have relatively little impact while minimizing the hazards of behaviours well established as cancer risk factors, according to the first global survey on the topic....
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Addictions to medicines and drugs are thought to develop over a relatively long period of time. The process involves both structural and functional changes in brain nerve cells that are still poorly understood. However, a single drug or alcohol dose is sufficient to generate an initial stage of addiction....
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The British Medical Association is wrong to argue that responsible drinkers are willing to pay more tax on alcohol to deal with the behaviour of an irresponsible minority, according to the British Beer and Pub Association....
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Permanent drug seeking and relapse after renewed drug administration are typical behavioral patterns of addiction. Molecular changes at the connection points in the brain's reward center are directly responsible for this. This finding was published by a research team from the Institute of Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim, the German ...
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A 21 year-old-man scarred permanently from steroid abuse was recently profiled in a Clinical Picture released on August 22, 2008 in The Lancet. This case provides an example of one of the dire complications that could arise from steroid doping. An amateur bodybuilder, the man entered the University Hospital Dusseldorf ...
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In a novel study looking at the propensity of illegal alcohol sales at sports stadiums, researchers reported that nearly one in five people posing as underage drinkers, and three out of four seemingly intoxicated "fans" were able to buy alcohol at professional sporting events. They also found that location mattered: ...
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US scientists testing the epilepsy drug vigabatrin (GVG) as a potential treatment for drug addiction, discovered that it also led to rapid weight loss and reduced food intake in genetically bred obese rats. The discovery by scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is published in ...
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"HIV Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations: The Pathfinder International Approach" (.pdf), Pathfinder International: The report provides information about the risks faced by populations that are particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, including commercial sex workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with men....
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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is proud to announce a landmark investment of $15 million by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) into research that will propel the understanding, intervention, treatment and prevention of mental illness and addiction to the next level of excellence....
