A new study developed and validated a tool for assessing children's overall addiction to digital devices. The study, which found that more than 12% of children ages 9-12 years were at risk of addiction to digital devices ...
Dec 9, 2019
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Judith Tsui, a UW Medicine clinician specializing in addiction treatment, was seeing more and more patients she was treating for opioid-use disorder also using methamphetamines, a powerful, highly addictive stimulant that ...
Dec 9, 2019
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A computer betting game can help predict the likelihood that someone recovering from opioid addiction will reuse the pain-relieving drugs, a new study shows.
Dec 8, 2019
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Preventing chronic disease could help curb the opioid epidemic, according to research from the University of Georgia.
Dec 5, 2019
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The human brain consists of several intricate networks or "circuits." One such complex circuit, called the "reward circuit," is involved in reward-associated learning, a process in which nerve cell activity changes in response ...
Dec 5, 2019
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With any addiction in which a user has successfully resisted a chemical, activity or substance, relapse is vexing. And with opioids, it's often deadly. Fatal overdoses following relapse from an opioid addiction is reaching ...
Dec 2, 2019
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Only 10 percent of New Zealand websites selling vaping products require proof of age before purchase, researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington, have found.
Nov 29, 2019
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A one-off dose of ketamine could help heavy drinkers reduce their alcohol intake, finds a new UCL experimental study.
Nov 26, 2019
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If you have ever smoked, or know someone who has—they might tell you that smoking a cigarette probably felt disgusting at first.
Nov 25, 2019
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Pain is a mosaic. From a distance, it looks like one big "ouch." But if you step closer, many types of pain—like tiles of different shades—emerge. A headache doesn't feel like a papercut. The sting of denim against a ...
Nov 22, 2019
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