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Alcohol dependence (AD) has negative effects on cognitive processes such as memory. Metamemory refers to the subjective knowledge that people have of their own cognitive processing abilities, such as their monitoring and control of memory. A new study has found that AD has a negative impact on both episodic memory ...
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Circadian rhythmicity is regulated by circadian clock genes, and animal studies have shown that chronic drinking can alter expressions in these genes......
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Many diagnostic and treatment options have been developed for chronic liver disease during the last 40 years, yet their influence on survival remain unclear......
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Kenya Drafts Policy To Address HIV In IDUs In Kenya, "[i]ntravenous drug users (IDUs) have been largely ignored by the government's HIV programmes on the basis that drug-taking is illegal, but a new policy is being drafted with the aim of reducing HIV transmission among this high-risk group," IRIN/PlusNews reports......
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The UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) has published a report entitled Sinning and sinned against: the stigmatisation of problem drug users by Charlie Lloyd of the University of York. The report summarises the research evidence on the stigmatisation of problem drug users and explores its impact on individuals and wider ...
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Playing "media detective" allows children to understand the intentions of marketers and the goals of advertising while empowering them to resist messages that encourage alcohol or tobacco use. A study published in the current journal Pediatrics shows that teaching children as early as third grade to be more skeptical of ...
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Regular alcohol intake raises the risk of developing lobular and hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, but does not appear to be linked to invasive ductal carcinoma risk, says a report published in JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), August 23rd issue......
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The Miami Herald: As the Jackson Health System's "governing board prepares to vote Monday on a proposed budget for 2011, its two money-losing nursing homes stand as a symbol for the challenges the system faces as it attempts to cut losses. Almost 100 of the 289 nursing home patients in ...
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The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) welcomes the Government's new policies to address the many problems caused by excessive alcohol consumption, but would have liked the Government to implement additional measures such as a tax increase on alcohol, says NZMA Chair Dr Peter Foley......
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Sovereign Health of California, a premier behavioral health treatment center located in San Clemente, California, announced that it has further expanded its evidence-based services by adding a neurofeedback component to its comprehensive treatment program......
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The Alcohol Policy Coalition has today released a document provided to all federal MPs outlining a suite of evidence-based strategies to address Australia's growing problem with alcohol. All federal Members of Parliament received copies of the document last month but Australians are yet to see any serious action from the ...
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DrugScope, the national membership organisation for the drug sector, responded to the publication of the 2010 Drug Strategy Consultation Paper (1)......
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If you want to know how people become addicted and why they keep using drugs, ask the people who are addicted. Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told University at Buffalo physicians they first got hooked on drugs legitimately prescribed for pain. Another 24 began with a friend's ...
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The British Medical Association (BMA), Alcohol Focus Scotland (AFS) and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) have endorsed the updated findings of researchers at Sheffield University on the impact that a minimum price per unit of alcohol will have on Scotland's drinking culture......
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Cedar Hills Hospital has launched a new program tailored to women with multiple mental health and chemical dependency issues. Exclusively Women is designed for women who are dealing with drug and alcohol dependency, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), spousal abuse, anxiety and obsessive disorders, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, and depressive ...
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James Brokenshire, UK minister for crime prevention is giving law enforcement authorities additional powers to combat a worryingly growing wave of legal highs, types of new narcotics which are usually legal when they arrive in the market because regulatory authorities have not yet had time to either approve or ban ...
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The Mental Health/Mental Retardation (MH/MR) Coalition sent a letter to Governor Edward G. Rendell urging him to protect funding to services for people with mental illness, intellectual disabilities and substance abuse disorders during the budget balancing process......
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On the street it's known as meth, speed, ice, chalk, crank, fire, glass or crystal. Methamphetamine is a highly addictive drug that wreaks havoc on the entire body, including the user's oral health. Approximately 10 million Americans have tried methamphetamine, while more than 1.4 million are habitual users......
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"It's like a magic drug", said the lead researcher of a team from Yale University in the US whose latest study suggests that ketamine, a drug normally used as an anasthetic, could be reformulated as an anti-depressant that takes effect in hours rather than the usual weeks and months of ...
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Bloomberg Businessweek: An actuarial firm hired by the state of Nebraska concluded that "federal health care reform will increase the state's Medicaid costs by a total of $526 million to $766 million over the next decade, figures Gov. Dave Heineman called staggering and shocking. ......
