Medications
Addiction counselor creates smartphone app to thwart overdoses
In his dozen years using heroin, Lucien Izraylov took pains to avoid detection. He was ashamed of what he was doing, so he almost always shot up alone.
Mar 4, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Prisons and asylums prove architecture can build up or break down a person's mental health
Anyone who has witnessed conditions in the UK's prisons – whether on television or in person – could not fail to be alarmed by the violence, despair and mental distress experienced by staff and prisoners. In the current ...
Feb 6, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Widely used physical health drugs may help treat serious mental illness
Medications commonly used to combat physical health diseases, such as high blood pressure, could bring significant benefits to people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or non-affective ...
Jan 9, 2019
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Medications
Prisoners need drug and alcohol treatments but AA programs aren't the answer
Prisons and drug use are closely linked. Two-thirds of Australian prisoners report using illicit drugs in the 12 months before they entered prison, compared with 12% of the general population in the previous 12 months. Around ...
Sep 7, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Substance use mortality varies widely across U.S. counties
(HealthDay)—Across U.S. counties there is considerable variation in mortality due to alcohol use disorders, drug use disorders, self-harm, and interpersonal violence, according to a study published in the March 13 issue ...
Mar 14, 2018
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Cardiology
Nonstatin drug use increases by 124% in U.S., related expenditures triple
Between 2002 and 2013 in the United States, nonstatin drug use increased by 124%, resulting in a 364% increase in nonstatin-associated expenditures, Yale researchers found. This study was published on Jan. 22, 2018 in the ...
Feb 20, 2018
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Addiction
Revellers ready for festival drug checks, study finds
A study of the attitudes and behaviours of young people at music festivals found that a majority were in favour of drug checking, and would reconsider taking a drug if they were aware of its contents.
Jan 19, 2018
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Health
Adolescents use dietary supplements to increase sports performance and improve immunity
Adolescents in developed countries frequently use dietary supplements despite a lack of knowledge about possible harmful effects or drug interactions. Often males turn to dietary supplements in an attempt to increase their ...
Nov 8, 2017
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Medical research
Genetically modifying zebrafish for detection of harmful compounds in drug candidates
The common zebrafish is a useful proxy for testing whether drug candidates cause organ damage. Now, researchers in Singapore have created two modified types of the fish, one that glows when experiencing toxicity, and another ...
Jul 26, 2017
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Medical research
Building a better blood-brain barrier model
Delivering drugs to the brain is no easy task. The blood-brain barrier -a protective sheath of tissue that shields the brain from harmful chemicals and invaders - cannot be penetrated by most therapeutics that are injected ...
Jun 6, 2017
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