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Why some doctors are in
favour of medical cannabis
The politics of medical cannabis may be complicated. But for
some people it makes a world of difference in relieving pain, nausea, seizures,
and other symptoms. The
rest of this article can be found here.
Why College Kids Drink
Like They’re Getting Extra Credit for It
College binge-drinking is a perennial public-health concern,
and most recently the concern has been allocated for college women. “Binge
drinking is an under recognized problem among women and girls,” the CDC
reported last year, amid a spate of nonfiction books about women catching up to
men's drinking habits, which some have argued contributes to campus sexual
assault. The effects of binge-drinking on men and women are well-known;
less-discussed is what causes binge drinking in the first place. The
rest of this article can be found here.
Want people to drink less?
Make their cigarettes more expensive
Excessive drinking leads to about 88,000 deaths each year in
the United States. Cigarette smoking adds another 440,000 deaths to the tally,
most due to long-term health problems like cancer. A new study from the
Washington University School of Medicine suggests you could take a bite out of
both figures with one simple policy change. The
rest of this article can be found here.
Addiction Treatment with a
Dark Side
In Demand in Clinics and on the Street, ‘Bupe’ Can Be a
Savior or a Menace.
For Shawn Schneider, a carpenter and rock musician, the
descent into addiction began one Wisconsin winter with a fall from a rooftop
construction site onto the frozen ground below. As the potent pain pills
prescribed for his injuries became his obsessive focus, he lost everything: his
band, his job, his wife, his will to live. The
rest of this article can be found here.
Could This Be The Next
Medicinal Marijuana?
Imagine discovering a plant that has the potential to help
alleviate post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal thoughts and paralyzing
anxiety. That's what some believe ayahuasca can do, and this psychedelic drink
is attracting more and more tourists to the Amazon. The
rest of this article can be found here.
We Can Do Better. And We
Must.
I have spent my life as a teacher, coach, and educational
leader trying to help young men and women grow up free from the negative
influences of drugs and alcohol. In this regard, I am not unlike so many
teachers and educators across our nation who try every day, year-round, to help
kids grow into happy, healthy, constructive adults. My working theory,
underscored by research, is that the teenage body organizes itself around its
activities, healthy or not, and that the adult body is far less susceptible to
intoxicants if it grows up free from them. The goal is to push the age of
experimentation as far down the road as possible. The
rest of this article can be found here.
Strict Social Hosts Help
Curb Underage Drinking
Teenagers are less likely to drink at parties when they live
in communities with particularly strong social host laws, finds a US-based study.
The
rest of this article can be found here.
6 Facts about Marijuana
Attitudes about marijuana have undergone a rapid shift in
public opinion, paralleled by few other trends in the U.S. Our recent data,
along with historical figures from Gallup and the General Social Survey, reveal
how views have shifted about the drug over time. Earlier this year, our survey
found that many more Americans now favor shifting the focus of the nation’s
overall drug policy. Here are six key facts about public opinion and marijuana:
The
rest of this article can be found here.
Adolescent Binge Drinking
Reduces Brain Myelin, Impairs Cognitive and Behavioral Control
UMass Amherst study suggests teen binge drinking effects
may last a lifetime
Binge drinking can have lasting effects on brain pathways
that are still developing during adolescence, say neuroscience researcher
Heather N. Richardson and her colleagues at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst and Louisiana State University. Results of their study using a rodent
model of adolescent drinking appear in the October 29 issue of The Journal of
Neuroscience. The
rest of this article can be found here.
Under Obamacare, Mental
Health Lacking
Loopholes in private health insurance plans, Medicaid and
states are barring behavioral health patients from seeking care. The
rest of this article can be found here.
Legally High at a Colorado
Campus
In an apartment complex just outside the western edge of the
University of Colorado’s flagship campus, a 22-year-old psychology major named
Zach has just leaned over an expensive oil rig — a twisting glass tube that he
will use to smoke shatter, a hash oil concentrate. Once he lights up, his high
will be rapid and intense. The
rest of this article can be found here.
This Is Your Brain on
Drugs
The gray matter of the nucleus accumbens, the walnut-shaped
pleasure center of the brain, was glowing like a flame, showing a notable
increase in density. “It could mean that there’s some sort of drug learning
taking place,” speculated Jodi Gilman, at her computer screen at the
Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine. Was the
brain adapting to marijuana exposure, rewiring the reward system to demand the
drug? The
rest of this article can be found here.
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