Neuroscience
Epigenetics of addiction: Epigenetic study untangles addiction and relapse in the brain
Why do some drug users continue to seek out drugs despite the prospect of losing family, friends, health or livelihood?
Sep 27, 2017
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News tagged with cocaine users
Addiction
Cocaine users' brains unable to extinguish drug associations
Cocaine-addicted individuals say they find the drug much less enjoyable after years of use, but they have great difficulty quitting. A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ...
Sep 11, 2017
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Addiction
From pill to needle: Prescription opioid epidemic may be increasing drug injection
The prescription opioid epidemic is shrinking the time it used to take drug users to progress to drug injection, a new Keck School of Medicine of USC-led study suggests.
May 8, 2017
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Health
When cocaine's in the mix, safe sex may not be
(HealthDay)—The long list of health woes linked to cocaine abuse includes risky sexual behavior, a small, new study suggests.
Feb 16, 2017
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Medications
Lessons learned from an overdose outbreak
Last summer, within eight hours, 12 patients were brought to the emergency department at Yale New Haven Hospital with signs of drug overdose. They had been exposed to toxic doses of fentanyl, a highly potent opioid 50 times ...
Feb 3, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study affirms that cocaine makes users more likely to risk unsafe sex
Cocaine use has long been tied anecdotally to higher-than-usual rates of impulsive behavior, including risky sex, but the tie-in has been difficult to study with any scientifically controlled rigor.
Feb 2, 2017
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Neuroscience
Cocaine users make riskier decisions after losing a gamble
People addicted to cocaine make riskier decisions than healthy people after losing a potential reward, according to a study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. In the study, senior ...
Jan 10, 2017
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Addiction
US and Mexican controls on precursor chemicals may reduce cocaine and meth use in the US
In December 2006, the USA regulated sodium permanganate, a chemical essential to the manufacture of cocaine. In March 2007, Mexico, the USA's primary source for methamphetamine, closed a chemical company accused of illicitly ...
Aug 16, 2016
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Neuroscience
Carrots and sticks fail to change behaviour in cocaine addiction
People who are addicted to cocaine are particularly prone to developing habits that render their behaviour resistant to change, regardless of the potentially devastating consequences, suggests new research from the University ...
Jun 16, 2016
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Neuroscience
Study sheds light on source of drug addicts risk-taking behavior
A study out today provides new insight into how the brains of drug addicts may be wired differently. The findings, which appear in the journal Psychopharmacology, show that while drug users have very strong motivation to ...
Feb 10, 2016
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