News tagged with cannabis dependence

Having multiple sex partners linked to later drug and alcohol problems

The more sex partners young adults have the more likely they are to go on to develop alcohol or cannabis dependence disorders in young adulthood, according to new University of Otago research.

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 15, 2013 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 1 |

A gene implicated in schizophrenia risk is also associated with risk for cannabis dependence

A paper by Shizhong Han and colleagues in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry implicates a new gene in the risk for cannabis dependence. This gene, NRG1, codes for the ErbB4 receptor, a protein implicated in synapt ...

Genetics Oct 11, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1