http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Witnessing or being on the receiving end of bullying at work heightens the risk of employees being prescribed antidepressants, sleeping pills, and tranquillisers, finds research published in BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-workplace-bullying-ups-prescriptions-anxiety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:30:04 EST news274554507 A few months after the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the use of psychoactive drugs by children in foster care in five states, a national study from PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia describes prescription patterns over time in 48 states. The updated findings show the percentage of children in foster care taking antipsychotics--a class of psychoactive drugs associated with serious side effects for children-- continued to climb in the last decade. At the same time, a slight decline was seen in the use of other psychoactive medications, including the percentage of children receiving 3 or more classes of these medications at once (polypharmacy). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-psychoactive-medication-children-foster.html Health Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:32:38 EST news254997125 A single injection of cocaine or methamphetamine in mice caused their brains to put the brakes on neurons that generate sensations of pleasure, and these cellular changes lasted for at least a week, according to research by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-discovery-brain-natural-resistance-drugs.html Neuroscience Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:10:01 EST news250425664