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Cannabis and Cancer
U.K. Study Finds Teens Know About Marijuana Harms
Studies Demonstrate Analgesic Properties Of Synthetic Cannabinoid
“Medical” Marijuana Use Has The Same Effect As Recreational Use
Tobacco Tax Hike Could Curb Smoking Among Those With Alcohol, Drug or Mental Disorders
Drug overdose: Medical Marijuana Facing a Backlash
Low Brain Serotonin Transporter Levels In Ecstasy Users
Translating Effective Web-based Self-help for Problem drinking into the Real World.
20 Children A Day Treated For Alcoholism
Separate And Joint Effects Of Alcohol And Tobacco On The Nucleus Accumbens
Translating effective web-based self-help for problem drinking into the real world.
Low brain serotonin transporter levels in ecstasy users
Binge Drinking Kills Teenage Brain Cells
BINGE DRINKING KILLS TEENAGE BRAIN CELLS
Separate And Joint Effects Of Alcohol And Tobacco On The Nucleus Accumbens
Dangers of Maternal Smoking
Adverse effects of cannabis on health: an update of the literature since 1996
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis: High on the Differential for Intractable Vomiting
Smoking Causes Heart Attacks Worldwide
Smoking and Binge Drinking Raises Oral-Cancer Risk
Research Offers Hope For Alcoholics
Prenatal Cocaine’s Lasting Cellular Effects
Smoking Marijuana During Pregnancy Alters Newborn Behavior
Fears over drinking habits as liver disease deaths double
Tobacco-Related Mortality
Study: Marijuana Causes Lung Damage
Smoking Marijuana More Harmful than Tobacco
Marijuana Use Tied to Cancer Rates Among Maoris
Strategies teenagers use to minimise alcohol-related harm
Smoking ages skin across the body
Substance Use A Major Burden Of Disease For Adolescents – The Lancet Adolescent Health Series
Cannabis linked to lung cancer risk
U.S. marijuana grows stronger than before: report
Neurobiological effects of early life cannabis exposure in relation to the gateway hypothesis
Prenatal cannabis exposure increases heroin seeking with allostatic changes in limbic enkephalin systems in adulthood.
Jump in alcoholic liver disease
Cannabis ‘disrupts brain centre’
Steady rise in deaths from heavy drinking
Treatment for Meth OD May Harm Brain
Ecstasy linked to ‘significant’ memory loss
Alcohol and increased risk of cancer
Smoking Marijuana Causes Infertility
Alcohol related hospital admissions double in last ten years according to latest official figures
Cannabis abuse and risk for psychosis in a prodromal sample
Deadly New ‘Legal’ Drug Bound For Britain
The Impact of Cannabis Smoking on Respiratory Health
Drinkers, Smokers Less Likely to Survive Cancer
Cannabinoids May Inhibit Cancer Cell Invasion
Scots and Irish at greater risk of drink-related death, study shows
Alcohol Consumption, Mortality and Morbidity
Psychosis More Common Among Teen Marijuana Users: Study
Research Triangle International – A Prevention Science Approach
Mothers’ methadone use in pregnancy may lead to visual problems for babies
Fatality Rates Among Young Drug Users A Cause For Concern
Teens smoking marijuana at increased schizophrenia risk
Death Rates from Alcohol Escalate
Emphysema and secondary pneumothorax in young adults smoking cannabis.
Second hand Smoke a Killer, Institute of Medicine Report Says
Secondhand Smoke May Cause Liver Disease
Smoking Ban Credited for Big Percent Drop in U.K. Heart Attacks
Childhood Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Linked to Lung Cancer
Daily Marijuana Use Could Cause Permanent Brain Damage, Researcher Says
Marijuana Damages DNA And May Cause Cancer, New Test Reveals
Marijuana Smoke Contains Higher Levels Of Certain Toxins Than Tobacco Smoke
Growing Evidence Of Marijuana Smoke’s Potential Dangers
Smoking Marijuana Impairs Cognitive Function In MS Patients
Daily Pot Smoking May Hasten Onset of Psychosis
Marijuana Use Associated with a Subtype of Testicular Cancer
Researchers Identify Clues About Marijuana Effects
Nicotine Hinders Chemotherapy, Study Finds
Use Of Cannabinoids Could Help Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Patients
Adolescent Drinkers and Drug Users Die Younger
Risk Of Hepatitis C-Related Liver Damage Increased By Regular Marijuana Use
Marijuana Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction – As Much As 20 Years Ahead Of Tobacco Smokers
Cannabis bigger cancer risk than cigarettes: study
Cannabis and Dental Problems
New Zealand: Smoking Cannabis Is Bad For Your Gums, Says Study
Drug Exposure Causes Fetal Brain Changes, Researchers Say
Children of Smoking Moms Risk Stroke, Heart Attack
Children of Smokers More Likely to Carry Pneumonia Bacteria
Carcinogens Found in Infant Children of Smokers
Warning on Smoking Near Babies
Heavy drinkers may develop Alzheimer’s earlier
Heart Benefits Come Fast for Women Who Quit Smoking
Marijuana and Heart Attacks
Marijuana use = greater risk of Mental Health – CNN
Dinner with family helps prevent drug use
Effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain
Methamphetamine Abuse Linked To Underage Sex, Smoking And Drinking
Accelerated Aging Caused By Drug Use
Does Heavy Alcohol Use Increase Risk of Prostate Cancer?
HIV transmission through injecting drug use on the increase in the UK
Marijuana Smoke Contains Higher Levels Of Certain Toxins Than Tobacco Smoke
Long-term Cannabis Users May Have Structural Brain Abnormalities
Growing Evidence Of Marijuana Smoke’s Potential Dangers
Alcohol and Pancreatic Cancer
Alcohol Consumption Increases the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Next 12 Hours
Drug misuse in pregnancy: losing sight of the baby?
Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems
Study finds link between amphetamine abuse and heart attacks in young adults
Cannabis linked to earlier psychosis onset
Colon Cancer Risk Greater for Women Exposed to Tobacco
Ammonia release from heated ‘street’ cannabis leaf and its potential toxic effects on cannabis users
Deaths from drug poisoning
SAMHSA Data Shows 1.7 Million Visits to Emergency Departments are Drug Related
The risk for malignant primary adult-onset glioma in a large, multiethnic, managed-care cohort: cigarette smoking and other lifestyle behaviors.
TB, substance abuse closely linked in U.S.
Hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of patients with liver disease as alcohol consumption causes a ‘rising tide of disease’, doctors have warned
Heavy Marijuana Use May Damage Developing Brain In Teens, Young Adults
Marijuana implicated in Testicular Cancer
Heavy drinking tied to depression
Two drinks a day raises pancreatic cancer risk
Rise in alcohol illness in young
Effect of Prenatal Smoking on Genes Increases Risk for Disruptive Behavior
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome: Clinical diagnosis of an underrecognised manifestation of chronic cannabis abuse
Drinking Heavy Amounts Of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain
Two Alcoholic Drinks Daily Raise Pancreatic Cancer Risk
Association of marijuana use and the incidence of testicular germ cell tumors
Daily Consumption Of Cannabis Predisposes To Appearance Of Psychosis And Schizophrenia, Study Finds
Long-term, heavy cannabis use may be associated with structural abnormalities in areas of the brain known as the hippocampus and amygdala, according to a new article.
Regular Cannabis May Increase Risk Of Stroke In Young Users
Acetaldehyde In Alcohol: ‘Hangover Chemical’ May Be Overlooked Risk Factor For Cancer
Alcohol-induced Flushing Is Risk Factor For Esophageal Cancer From Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol And Cancer: Is Drinking The New Smoking?
Tobacco And Alcohol Use Independently Increase Risk Of Head And Neck Cancer
ECSTASY consumption, perhaps as little as “one big exposure”, can cause irreversible brain damage, says an international expert on the drug.
Number of drink and drug abusers filling mental hospitals soars by a third
Sperm From Marijuana Smokers Move Too Fast Too Early, Impairing Fertility
Recent clinical evidence for “intranasal transmission.”
Study Links Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure with Abnormal Brain Development
Warning on Danger of Smoking Marijuana While Pregnant
No ‘Crack Babies,’ But Study Says Cocaine Use in Pregnancy Hurts
Maternal cocaine use damages young children
Smokers May Have Increased Risk Of Pancreatitis
Passive Smoking In Childhood May Increase Risk Of Lung Cancer In Later Life
Ear Infections In Children Linked To Passive Smoking
Cannabis Increases Risk Of Psychosis
Cannabis Could Increase Risks Of Psychotic Illness By 40 Percent
Severe Vomiting Sickness With Chronic Cannabis Abuse
Marijuana Use Affects Blood Flow In Brain Even After Abstinence
Marijuana Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction
New Mediator Of Smoking Recruits
Controversial Drug Shown To Act On Brain Protein To Cut Alcohol Use
Computer versus Therapist-delivered Treatment for Co-occurring Depression and Alcohol/Cannabis Use
Marijuana Associated with Testicular Cancer
Alcohol And Smoking Are Key Causes For Bowel Cancer
Hospital because of illegal drug-taking has soared
Alcohol and Cigarettes Combined Pose Greater Cancer Risk
Study Says Alcohol Affects Risk of Second Breast Cancer
Alcohol’s Effect on the Brain is Rapid, Detrimental
Researcher Decries Parental Permissiveness on Drinking
Marijuana May Disrupt Brain Development
Study: Tobacco Linked to Brain Damage
Study: Alcohol Deaths and Related Disorders Increase Globally
More Women in England Dying from Alcohol
Higher Alcohol Intake Associated with More Hospitalizations
Drinkers, Smokers Less Likely to Survive Cancer
Evaluation of the DNA Damaging Potential of Cannabis
Association of marijuana use and the incidence of testicular germ cell tumors
Chronic toxicology of cannabis
Genes And The Environment Interact To Influence Adolescent Alcohol Use
Cannabis ‘can cause psychosis in healthy people’
Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Young People: A Review of Reviews
Multiple Sclerosis Accelerated by Smoking
Cannabis not harmless as supposed
Killer virus hits past drug users
Extent of Diseases Caused by Smoking
Pot Use Tied to Stroke in Three Teenagers
Report Shows Link Between Addiction, Mental Illness
Separate Genes Responsible for Drinking, Alcoholism
Early Sleep Troubles Linked to Later Drug Problems
Smoking causes heart attacks worldwide
Smoking Explains Cancer Deaths Among Black Men
Cannabis dependence: a snapshot
Drugs And The Immune System
Opioid Addiction Drug Orlaam Linked To Life Threatening Cardiac Disorders
Ecstasy link to long term brain damage
Study Shows Why Cocaine Users are Prone to Infection
Meth Withdrawal Causes Brain Abnormalities
Alcohol illness ‘may cripple NHS’
Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study
Marijuana Firmly Linked to Infertility
Cannabis use dulls the brain
Apoptosis
Cardiovascular complications of recreational drugs
Cannabis danger to men
Cannabis mental illness link warning
Mental fuzziness linked to marijuana
Smoking and sudden cardiac death
Study Finds Widespread Drug Problems Among ER Patients
Methadone Maintenance as Treatment for Heroin Addiction
Marijuana and Cardiovascular death in young adults
Can marijuana use affect the immune system?
Does marijuana kill brain cells?
Mental Health of Teen Pot Smokers Alarming
Smoking and blindness
Teens Seeing Too Many Magazine Alcohol Ads
Alcohol as Damaging as Tobacco
Light Alcohol Use May Protect Against Sudden Cardiac Death
British Medical Association Launches Last Minute Attack On Marijuana Reclassification
Marijuana and Schizophrenia
Marijuana Linked to Schizophrenia, Depression
Cannabis use more harmful to schizoids
GW Pharmaceuticals Expects UK Government’s Approval For Cannabis Drug
Marijuana Implicated in Deaths
Young smokers five times more likely to have a heart attack
Many Epilepsy And Multiple Sclerosis Patients Self-Medicate With Marijuana
Women smokers hasten their menopause
Maryland Sees Jump in PCP Treatment Admissions
New Molecule May Be Basis For Drugs That Battle Overeating And Drug Dependency
New Report Shows Heavy Misuse of Oxycodone, Hydrocodone
Mechanism Behind Stimulant Medication for ADHD
Report challenges current drug treatment strategy
Emphysema Link
Eye Scans to Test for Drugs
Health Problems Often Accompany Addiction
Heavy Australian cannabis use poses mental health risk
Pot Impacts Heart
Cannabis link to mental illness among the young
Proof that smoking cannabis can make you psychotic by Dr Thomas Stuttaford
Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
Brain Area Found to Be Smaller in Cocaine Addicts
Study relates marijuana and tobacco use
Scientists Work on Drugs to Curb Multiple Addictions
Directors of NIDA and NIAAA Offer Perspectives on Addiction
Cannabis linked to bone disease
Only 1.8% of Californian doctors prescribe medical marijuana
Cannabis less effective against vomiting than serotonin antagonists
Smoking Causes Heart Attacks Worldwide
Smoking and Binge Drinking Raises Oral-Cancer Risk
Separate Genes Responsible for Drinking, Alcoholism
Cannabis link to Maori cancer
Drug Use and Other Illness
Causes, consequences and clinical implications of alcohol-related brain shrinkage
Antiemetic efficacy of smoked marijuana
Cocaine Can Harm Heart’s Blood Vessels
Epidemic of liver disease hits women drinkers
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
Health timebomb as rising cocaine use threatens heart problems in young
Heavy drinking leads to Heart Problems
Heavy Drinking Quickly Damages Brain
Meth use causes brain damage
Nicotine Withdrawal Linked to Disrupted Glutamate Signalling
Pot-Based Drug Promising for Arthritis
Research Finds Link Between Alcoholism, Depression
Respiratory Effects of Marijuana and Tobacco Use in a U.S. Sample
Smoking Doubles Risk of Breast Cancer
Smoking More Deadly for Women, Study Says
Study finds smoking harms women more than men
Pregnant Women Warned Against Nicotine Replacement
Researchers Discover Mechanism Behind Alcohol-Cancer Link
Smoke from others’ cigarettes more harmful
Study: Alcohol Health Risks Outweigh Benefits
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure Costs Nearly $10 Billion per Year
Alcohol Is a Leading Risk Factor for Cancer
Alcohol Kills 115,000 Annually in Europe
All Tobacco Forms Are Harmful To Health
Drug abuse linked to brain haemorrhage in young adults
Psychophysiological Evidence of Altered Neural Synchronization in Cannabis Use: Relationship to Schizotypy
Fetal Alcohol Exposure: Baby’s First Stool May Provide Clues
Health Problems Often Accompany Addiction
Liver disease may kill heroin users
Long Term Marijuana Use May Fog the Brain
Male Smokers More Likely to Be Impotent
Marijuana and Cot death
Marijuana May Sabotage Pregnancy
More Female Nonsmokers Dying of Lung Cancer
People who first try marijuana at a young age are more likely to develop mental illnesses
The Impact of Substance Dependence on the Course of Depression Comorbid depression
Transient Ischemic Attack in Heavy Cannabis Smokers – How ‘Safe’ Is It?
Marijuana Emergencies
Effects of cannabis on schizophrenia
Study Finds Marijuana Ingredient Promotes Tumour Growth, Impairs Anti-Tumour Defences
Cocaine Use, Hypertension Major Risk Factors For Brain
Cannabis Psychosis
Alarming Increase In Drug Users Seeking Treatment
Heroin, Cocaine, Alcohol Top Drug-Related Deaths
Marijuana Could Cause Lung Disease
Marijuana and Schizophrenia
Britain ERs Seeing More Cocaine Users With Chest Pains
More Youth Exhibit Alcohol, Other Drug Dependency
Low-dose MDMA (‘ecstasy’) induces vasopressin secretion
Cigarette Smoking and Cognitive decline in Mid-Life Evidence From a Prospective Birth Cohort Study
Smoking and drug abuse traits linked to genes
Students who smoke marijuana likely to see lower math scores
Cannabis link to psychosis
American Lung Association – Healthy Lungs
Study finds smoking marijuana can cause cancer
Chest pains brought on by cocaine overwhelm A&E units
Smoke interferes with asthma
Cancer link to free cigarettes
Pollution higher indoors
Passive smoking increases risk of CHD
Genetic anomalies tied with marijuana—activated brain chemicals appear linked to schizophrenia, Japanese researchers report.
Marijuana Misuse Increases Depression Risk
Women ‘at double the risk’ of lung cancer
Millions exposed to secondhand smoke at work
Smoking cannabis causes lung damage
Callous way the tobacco industry ensnares our youngsters
Cannabinoid has no impact on spasticity associated with MS
Snippets from SAMHSA
Britons are winning war on smoking
THC-caused apoptosis linked to central nervous system abnormalities in infants
Smoking Marijuana More Harmful than Tobacco
UK Drug Deaths Soar
Smoking can double risk of MS
Cannabis doubles the risk of schizophrenia and other psyciatric conditions
British Medical Association Annual Conference rejects legalised cannabis motion
Yale Study Terms Addiction a Developmental Disorder
Marijuana will not stop Multiple Sclerosis Pain
Cannabis ‘rapidly damages lungs’
Marijuana Can Trigger Rapid Drop in Blood Pressure
Youth smoking
What to Do When a Colleague Has an Alcohol or Drug Addiction Problem
Drug Use in the USA
Cocaine Abuse Increases Risk of HIV Infection
College Students Discount Smoking Health Risks
HCV & HIV Common in Young Canadian Drug Users
Cocaine May Compromise Immune System, Increase Risk of Infection
Cigarettes Contribute to Early Cardiac Deaths Worldwide
Advocates of needle exchange claim such programs protect injection drug addicts from HIV infection – but new study refutes this.
Adolescent Treatment Admissions Increase in 2002
Many epilepsy and multiple sclerosis patients self-medicate with marijuana
Does Marijuana Withdrawal Syndrome Exist?
2003 Report by Florida Medical Examiners Commission on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons
Marijuana Compounds May Act Without Causing a High
Children of Smokers More Likely to Carry Pneumonia Bacteria
Carcinogens Found in Infant Children of Smokers
Mental health hit hard by soft drugs
Marijuana Can Trigger Rapid Drop in Blood Pressure
Cocaine can cause major stomach problems: surgeon
Association Between Marijuana Use and Transitional Cell Carcinoma
Alcohol and cancer
Smoking and depression
Measuring excessive alcohol use in college drinking contexts: The drinking context scale
Marijuana as a Gateway Drug
Wired for Addiction
Smoking, pregnancy and poverty
Smoking and Pregnancy – Second hand smoke increases the risk of SIDS and asthma
Many smokers continue to smoke after surgery for blocked arteries
Smoking spoils sperm
Women smokers at greater risk of heart attacks than men
The real reason why British girls smoke
Health, Society and Alcohol
Positron emission tomographic evidence of toxic effect of MDMA (“Ecstasy”) on brain serotonin neurons in human beings.
Pathology of deaths associated with “ecstasy” and “eve” misuse
What influences young people to take drugs?
Cortical and striatal circuits influenced during repeated methamphetamine administration
Gateway Theory
Clove cigarettes
Smoking And Carcinoma Of The Female Reproductive System In The Pelvis
Pharmacologic Factors
Psychological Constructs
Autopsy gives clues to Ecstasy effects
Cocaine-Related Deaths, Drug-Related Emergency Visits Drastically Increasing
Study Says Cocaine Use Inhibits Immune System
Cocaine Accelerates HIV Infection
Recent Scientific findings – COCAINE
Cocaine Use During Pregnancy May Affect Infant’s Brain
Cocaine Can Rip Open Major Blood Vessel
Cocaine and Kidney Disease
‘Healthy Alcohol’ Studies May Be Flawed
More Babies Born with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
When alcohol and nicotine interact
Behavioural outcomes among children of alcoholics during the early and middle childhood years
Scottish women, health and smoking
Phillip Morris Recognises Harm From Smoking
Parents ignorant of passive smoking health risks
Acute Effects Of Passive Smoking On The Coronary Circulation In Healthy Young Adults
New EU directive to ban tobacco advertising
Cannabis dependence, withdrawal, and reinforcing effects