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- Partnership to end Addiction – Research News Roundup: February 13, 2025
- Structural brain differences in adolescents may play a role in early initiation of substance use
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- Prevention, Persistence, and the Power of Storytelling: Interviews from the NPN Conference
- A National Strategy for Preventing Substance and Opioid Use Disorders Through Evidence-Based Prevention Programming That Fosters Healthy Outcomes in Our Youth
- MARIJUANA: MAN-MADE DISASTER
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- Uncovering the link between cannabis and psychosis
- Employees who use and abuse marijuana miss more work, new study shows
- BRAIN at 10: A View from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
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- Health risk behaviour prevention/intervention programmes targeted at youth/adolescents engaging in risky behaviour—a scoping review
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- Alcohol and its Impact on the Adolescent Brain
- Associations of cannabis use, use frequency, and cannabis use disorder with violent behavior among young adults in the United States
- ‘Violent’ passenger says he ate 10 weed edibles, tries opening plane doors, feds say
- California needs to do more to prevent suicide among Native Americans, tribal leaders say
- Psychedelics: A new hope for substance abuse treatment
- What Pot Really Does To The Teen Brain
- Healthy Lifestyle And Cognitive Decline In Middle-Aged And Older Adults Residing in 14 European Countries
- Ushering In A New Paradigm Of Substance Use Prevention—Low-Touch Personalized Interventions In Specialty Care
- Legalization Of Marijuana
- Friday Fact: The rate of violent behavior in daily marijuana users aged 18-34 was nearly twice the violent behavior rate of non-users
- What You Aren’t Hearing About Marijuana’s Health Effects
- Problems Of Drug Dependence, 1986 : Proceedings Of The 48th Annual Scientific Meeting, The Committee On Problems Of Drug Dependence
- INTERVIEW WITH U.S. DRUG CZAR JOHN WALTERS
- Association Between Cannabis Use Disorder And Schizophrenia Stronger In Young Males Than In Females
- Depressive Symptoms, Mental Wellbeing, And Substance Use Among Adolescents Before And During The COVID-19 Pandemic In Iceland: A Longitudinal, Population-based Study
- Alcohol Consumption And MRI Markers Of Brain Structure And Function: Cohort Study Of 25,378 UK Biobank Participants
- What The Aaron Hernandez Documentary Missed About His Brain
- Using Neuroscience To Prevent Drug Addiction Among Teenagers
- Teen Brain Volume Changes With Small Amount of Cannabis Use, Study Finds
- Novel Insights On Cannabis And Psychosis
- Study Finds Link Between Prenatal THC Exposure And Autism
- Cannabis Use Is Associated With Potentially Heritable Widespread Changes In Autism Candidate Gene DLGAP2 DNA Methylation In Sperm
- Cannabis Use During Adolescence And The Occurrence Of Depression, Suicidality And Anxiety Disorder Across Adulthood: Findings From A Longitudinal Cohort Study Over 30 Years
- Review Of Studies Suggests THC In Cannabis Could Induce Psychiatric Symptoms In Healthy People
- A Synopsis Of The Numerous Studies Supporting An Causal Relationship Between Marijuana Use And The Chronic Psychotic Disorder Schizophrenia
- Letter from Pamela McColl
- U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use And The Developing Brain
- CANNABIS POLICY OUTLINE
- Examining Brain Health Could Help Fight Methamphetamine Use Disorder
- Cannabis Use And Violence In Patients With Severe Mental Illnesses: A Meta-Analytical Investigation
- Notes From The Field: Death Following Ingestion Of An Edible Marijuana Product–Colorado, March 2014.
- The Connection Between Stress and Alcoholism
- Cannabis And Pregnancy Don’t Mix
- PREVENTING MARIJUANA USE AMONG YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS
- Those Few Cigarette Puffs During Adolescence Might Have Altered Your Brain
- The Contribution Of Cannabis Use To Variation In The Incidence Of Psychotic Disorder Across Europe (EU-GEI): A Multicentre Case-Control Studyncidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU-GEI): a multicentre case-control study
- Drug addiction – How It Hijacks Our Cognition & Consciousness
- Grey Matter Volume Differences Associated With Extremely Low Levels Of Cannabis Use In Adolescence
- PREVENTION – GETTING AHEAD OF THE GAME
- Depressive Symptoms And Suicidality In Adolescents Using E-Cigarettes And Marijuana: A Secondary Data Analysis From The Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Eight States And The District Have Legalized Recreational Pot.
- Why Are Habits So Hard To Break?
- Reefer Sadness
- Ontario’s New Retail Pot Plan ‘Puts Profit Over Public Health’ Says Former Obama Drug Adviser
- Smoking Weed Just ONCE Could Change A Teenager’s Brain: Scientists Discover Even Small Amounts Of Cannabis Are Enough To Thicken Tissue
- Effects Of Prenatal Marijuana Exposure On Neuropsychological Outcomes In Children Aged 1-11 Years: A Systematic Review
- Liverwort Could Have Medicinal Benefits Of Cannabis THC – Without The High
- Cannabis, A Known Teratogen: The Leading Pediatric And Transgenerational Public Health Challenge Of Our Time
- Problematic Alcohol Use Associates With Sodium Channel And Clathrin Linker 1 (SCLT1) In Trauma-Exposed Populations
- Development Of An Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Anxiety And Opioid Use Disorder: Study Protocol And Methods
- Pot Smoking By Parents Tied To Risk Of Psychotic Episodes In Kids
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder And Youth Justice: A Prevalence Study Among Young People Sentenced To Detention In Western Australia
- Hippocampal Granule Cell Loss In Human Chronic Alcohol Abusers
- Thinking Is Warped On Cannabis Legalisation
- Notice Of Liability Memo: To Canadian Parliamentarians, Canada Senators And The Marijuana Industry.
- Cannabis (THC, psychoactive ingredient): How It Damages The Brain And Body.
- Moderate Alcohol Use Is Associated With Decreased Brain Volume In Early Middle Age In Both Sexes
- The Cannabinoid Receptor CB1 Interacts With The WAVE1 Complex And Plays A Role In Actin Dynamics And Structural Plasticity In Neurons
- Over 100 Child Abuse Deaths Found Related To Cannabis, With Rise Of Commercial Industry
- THC Exposure Of Human iPSC Neurons Impacts Genes Associated With Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Pathways From Epigenomics And Glycobiology Towards Novel Biomarkers Of Addiction And Its Radical Cure
- Psychotic Disorders Hospitalizations Associated With Cannabis Abuse Or Dependence: A Nationwide Big Data Analysis.
- Gastroschisis And Autism – Dual Canaries In The Californian Coalmine
- At The Tip Of An Iceberg: Prenatal Marijuana And Its Possible Relation To Neuropsychiatric Outcome In The Offspring
- It’s All In The Rhythm: The Role Of Cannabinoids In Neural Oscillations And Psychosis
- Substance Use Through Adolescence Into Early Adulthood After Childhood-Diagnosed ADHD: Findings From The MTA Longitudinal Study
- Marijuana Users Report High Rates Of Dependence In Global Drug Survey
- Prenatal Marijuana Use Can Affect Infant Size, Behavior, Study Finds
- How YOU Have Paid To Help Legalise Mind-bending Party Drugs (Because Your Taxes Have Been Spent Testing Their Use For Depression)
- Marijuana-Induced Psychosis Behind Toronto Lawyer’s Bat Attack, Judge Rules
- Smoking High-Strength Cannabis May Damage Nerve Fibres In Brain
- Cannabis And The Developing Brain: Insights Into Its Long-Lasting Effects
- Can We All Chill Out About Cannabis? Not Quite Yet
- Association Of Depression With Past-Month Cannabis Use Among US Adults Aged 20 To 59 Years, 2005 To 2016
- AMA Position Statement: Cannabis Use And Health (2014)
- Acute Illness Associated With Cannabis Use, By Route Of Exposure: An Observational Study
- Brain Research: In The Same Way Addiction Sufferers Crave Substances, Their Family Members Crave Them
- Hypermethylation of Proopiomelanocortin and Period 2 Genes in Blood Are Associated with Greater Subjective and Behavioral Motivation for Alcohol in Humans
- National Families In Action’s The Marijuana Report Website And E-Newsletter To Be Featured In Auburn University Online Course
- 8 Distinguishing Features Of Primary Psychosis Versus Cannabis-Induced Psychosis
- Teens Who Use Marijuana At Risk Of Schizophrenia
- Researchers Issue Important Correction: Chronic Marijuana Use DOES Lead To Development Of Psychosis, Depression, And Asthma
- Twins Study Finds No Evidence that Marijuana Lowers IQ in Teens
- Mental Illness Risk As ‘Skunk’ Drives Out Milder Cannabis
- As Scans Show Drug’s Impact On Brain, A Top Doctor Warns Of A Psychosis, Paranoid Delusions And A Superskunk Schizophrenia Timebomb
- New Therapeutic Approach For Children Born To Mothers Who Used Cannabis During Pregnancy
- Marijuana Violence And Law
- Gene Could Help Identify Psychosis Risk In Cannabis Users
- New Mother, 32, ‘Killed Herself After Developing Drug-induced Psychosis From Taking Cannabis’ To Treat MORNING SICKNESS
- The Link Between Opioid Overdoses And Amnesia Is Only Getting Stronger
- Attacker Smoked Cannabis: suicide and psychopathic violence in the UK and Ireland
- Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
- MARIJUANA Causes Mental Illness And Addiction … In Turn More Homelessness, Poverty And Crime
- Death By Self-Mutilation After Oral Cannabis Consumption.
- Consumption Of Nicotine In Adolescence May Lead To Increased Alcohol Intake Later In Life
- Is CBD Oil Harmful or Healing? What No One is Telling You
- One Month of Cannabis Abstinence in Adolescents and Young Adults Is Associated With Improved Memory
- Treatment For Cannabis Use Disorders: A Case Report
- Persistency Of Cannabis Use Predicts Violence Following Acute Psychiatric Discharge
- Could Marijuana Really Cause A Mental Breakdown? We Explain How The Drug Affects The Brain As Kanye West’s Tour Insurer Refuses To Pay For Cancelled Shows – And Blames His Cannabis Use
- Journal Prints Correction: Marijuana Use Linked With 2.5-Fold Increase In Psychosis
- Cannabis ‘DOES Alter The Brain’s Ability To Process Emotions’, Experts Warn
- Why do we so consistently underplay the links between cannabis and psychosis? This isn’t a benevolent drug
- Persistent Cannabis Users Show Neuropsychological Decline From Childhood To Midlife
- Think It’s Harmless? Now Nine In Ten Teens At Drug Clinics Are Being Treated For Marijuana Use
- A Gene Links Impulsivity And Drug Use Vulnerability
- Summary of Address to Australia as a Christian Nation Association
- Long-Term Use Of Cannabis Or Medication Derived From The Drug Impairs Memory, Conclude Researchers
- Childhood Adversity Increases Susceptibility To Addiction Via Immune Response
- Endocannabinoid Signaling In Social Functioning: An RDoC Perspective
- Scientists Pinpoint Brain Region That May Be Center Of Alcohol Addiction
- Powerful Documentary On The Impact Of Marijuana In The Brain
- JOURNAL PRINTS CORRECTION: MARIJUANA USE LINKED WITH 2.5-FOLD INCREASE IN PSYCHOSIS
- Early Onset Of Drug Use Linked To Mental Disorders And Multi-drug Use
- Researchers Create Tool To Predict Teens’ Drinking Behaviour
- High times for cannabis: Epigenetic imprint and its legacy on brain
- In California, Learning How Marijuana Is an Unlikely Divider
- Waiting is the Hardest Part—Dopamine Release, Anticipatory Reward and Time Lapse
- Marijuana at school: Loss of concentration, risk of psychosis
- ‘A Program In Maine Promotes Using Marijuana And Kratom To Cure Opiate Addition.’
- Cannabis Increases The Noise In Your Brain
- Clonidine Plus Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)Improves Treatment Outcomes
- How a brain gets hooked on opioids
- Long-lasting effects of traumatic childhood experiences may be due to impaired neural connections
- Reversing The Negative Effects Of Adolescent Marijuana Use
- Red Bull – Monster – Four Loko – Rockstar: The Downside to So-Called Energy Drinks
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder—High Rates, High Needs, High Time for Action
- Cannabis-Induced Psychosis Now Spreading through UK Author: Mark Gold, MD
- Models of Alcoholism: Medical / Physiological Causes
- Cannabis-Induced Psychosis: A Review
- Marijuana and vulnerability to psychosis
- Twenty-year outcomes in adolescents who self-harm show worrying levels of substance abuse by age 35
- Marijuana and Other Drugs: A Link We Can’t Ignore
- Psychosis relapse, medication non-adherence, and cannabis
- Cannabis is worth bothering with
- Proenkephalin Mediates the Enduring Effects of Adolescent Cannabis Exposure Associated with Adult Opiate Vulnerability
- Variance in Cannabis Use and Gender Affect Size of Important Brain Regions
- Prenatal exposure to smoke, alcohol may increase behaviour problems in kids
- Marijuana use dampens brain’s response to reward over time, U-M study finds
- High-Potency Marijuana May Damage Nerve Fibers in Brain, Study Suggests
- Three Anti-Craving Medication Options for Treating Opioid Dependence
- ‘Schizophrenia at its Very Depths’ Drove Mother to Kill Eight Children
- Emergency Visits Related to Marijuana Use at Colorado Hospital Quadruple
- Casual cannabis use: Is there a link to depression?
- Study shows marijuana use interrupts adolescent brain development
- I Was Biting Glass and Biting My Way Out of Delirium
- Cannabis Use and Risk for Substance Use Disorders and Mood or Anxiety Disorders
- Prevention Program Reduces Substance Use By Participants’ Friends
- Cannabis and Strokes: Linked or Not?
- Heavy alcohol use in adolescence alters brain electrical activity
- How LSD affects the brain and creates its trippy effect
- Cannabis use disorder and suicide attempts in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans.
- Cannabis use and risk of schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomization study.
- Despite study, marijuana still linked with problems among teenagers
- Weed or wheel! FMRI, behavioural, and toxicological investigations of how cannabis smoking affects skills necessary for driving.
- New study shows marijuana users have low blood flow to the brain
- A cannabinoid link between mitochondria and memory
- “Zombie” Outbreak Caused by the Synthetic
- F.D.A. Agrees to New Trials for Ecstasy as Relief for PTSD Patients
- Study finds abnormally low blood flow in the brain of marijuana users
- Psychiatrist links ‘shatter’ drug use to psychosis increase
- Marijuana and the Opiate/Heroin Epidemic: Brain Science Reveals a Connection
- Cannabis abuse possible cause of psychosis
- Teenage Binge Drinking Can Affect Brain Function Of Future Offspring
- Impact of Cannabis on the Neurocognitive Performance of Jamaican Adolescents
- Genetic and Environmental Contributions to the Association Between Cannabis Use and Psychotic-Like Experiences in Young Adult Twins
- Childhood Trauma Linked to Substance Abuse Later in Life
- Effects of Marijuana on the Human Body – particularly the fragile brain.
- Cannabis and its effects on driving skills
- What happens when you smoke weed every day for 5 years
- Mental illness genetically linked to drug use and misuse
- Suicide prevention drug steps closer with enzyme discovery
- Heavy marijuana use is a health issue, not a moral issue.
- Spotlights the Impact of the Therapists’ Words on Teen Brains
- Adverse effects of cannabis scientifically verified
- Researchers pinpoint when cocaine-addicted individuals are most vulnerable to relapse
- Marijuana Use Increases Violent Behavior
- Smoking and Mental Illness
- Nora Volkow Explains Addiction
- Marijuana Isn’t a ‘Safe Drug’
- Marijuana Effects Cerebral Blood Flow One Month After Smoking
- Smoking cannabis for three years in your teens can ruin long-term memory: Using drug daily changes shape of part of the brain linked to recall
- Narrative of Discovery: Can Magnets Treat Cocaine Addiction?
- Demographics and post-mortem toxicology findings in deaths among people arrested multiple times for use of illicit drugs and/or impaired driving
- Drunk or stoned—comparing sexual experiences related to alcohol and marijuana use among adults
- THC Makes Rats Lazy
- Childhood Trauma May Activate Gene Leading to PTSD
- Dr. McKeganey Warned of the Marijuana–Mental Illness Link
- Smoking cannabis DOES dampen your emotions ‘and increases the risk of addiction to ALL drugs’
- Marijuana use in adolescence may increase risk for psychotic symptoms
- Childhood trauma increases risk for drug use in adolescence
- Stress Hormone Sets the Stage for Relapse to Cocaine Use
- Neuroscience: Rewiring the brain
- Legalized Cannabis and the Brain: NIDA Sounds the Alarm
- Cannabis in First-Episode Psychosis Linked to Poor Outcomes
- Marijuana use disorder is common and often untreated
- AKT1 genotype moderates the acute psychotomimetic effects of naturalistically smoked cannabis in young cannabis smokers
- Decreased dopamine brain reactivity in marijuana abusers is associated with negative emotionality and addiction severity
- Marijuana Policy Architectures: A Reply to Jon Caulkins
- Australian adolescent cannabis use and their relationship to young adult social and behavioural adjustment
- High doses of cocaine can cause the brain to eat itself, research suggests.
- Study Shows “Skunk-Like” Marijuana Can Damage Nerve Fibres in Key Brain Structure
- Marijuana dependence influenced by genes, childhood sexual abuse
- Developmental Trajectories of Marijuana Use among Men
- Factors that lead to the use of crack cocaine in combination with marijuana in Brazil: a qualitative study
- Medicinal and Recreational Marijuana: What are the Risks?
- Cannabis causes chaos in the brain
- Neural Plasticity in the Brain
- Cannabis – Medicine or Menace:
- Cell-specific STORM super-resolution imaging reveals nanoscale organization of cannabinoid signalling
- The Connections Between Psychotropic Drugs and Irrational Acts of Violence – What Journalists, Lawyers, Laypersons and Healthcare Providers Need to Know
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RECOVERY: THE BRAIN IN RECOVERY
- THE EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA ON THE BODY
- Hungarian Scientists Prove Devastating Effect Cannabis Use Has On The Brain
- Team to study how alcohol hijacks brain’s reward system
- Even when you are confident in your decision not to use drugs or alcohol, it can be hard when it’s your friend who is offering.
- NIAAA Spectrum: Brain Scans Reveal Heavy Drinking Damages White Matter
- Recreational marijuana use associated with increased impulsivity and hostility in daily life
- A lower IQ has been linked to greater and riskier drinking among young adult men
- Predisposition to and effects of methamphetamine use on the adolescent brain
- Cocaine users have impaired ability to predict loss
- Animal study suggests heavy drinking in adolescence associated with lasting brain changes
- The Future of Teen Drug Use?
- Psychosis and severe rhabdomyolysis associated with synthetic cannabinoid use
- A comparison of the latent class structure of cannabis problems among adult men and women who have used cannabis repeatedly
- Marijuana motivations across adolescence: impacts on use and consequences
- Prenatal marijuana exposure contributes to the prediction of marijuana use at age 14
- One in 6 Ontario adults say they’ve had a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime
- Psychological distress and lifestyle of students: implications for health promotion.
- Marijuana Legalization and Young Brains: Time for Serious Study
- The Truth About Skunk
- Casual pot smokers’ brains undergo physical changes, study finds
- Prenatal alcohol consumption linked to mental health problems
- Neurobiology of Addiction: PET Scans Show Changes in the Brain.
- Efforts To Prevent Prescription Drug Misuse Should Focus on Peers, Not Peer Pressure
- Dopamine challenge reveals neuroadaptive changes in marijuana abusers
- Fish oil may benefit alcohol abusers
- Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Affects Brain Development Through Adolescence
- ROOTS OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE?
- Inside the Teenage Brain: New Studies Explain Risky Behavior
- Why Synthetic Marijuana Is More Toxic To The Brain Than Pot
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- ‘Just one cannabis joint can bring on schizophrenia!’
- Science and Reason re Marijuana
- The impact of marijuana on brain functions
- Do Kids Who Smoke Marijuana Get Lower School Grades? The Possible Effects Of Weed On Cognitive Development
- Project towards no drug abuse: a review of the findings and future directions.
- Cannabis use and antisocial behaviors in high-school students.
- Perceived Parent and Peer Marijuana Norms: The Moderating Effect of Parental Monitoring During College.
- Creatures of habit: Disorders of compulsivity share common pattern, brain structure
- Healing the Addiction Memory
- Age of onset of marijuana use and executive function
- BrainBriefs: The Alcoholic Brain
- Mindfulness Meditation May Reduce Drug User Relapse
- Children exposed to methamphetamine before birth have increased cognitive problems
- Effect of long-term cannabis use on axonal fibre connectivity.
- Can Faith Rewire an Addict’s Brain?
- Adolescents’ Brains Respond Differently
- Report on alcohol-related brain damage should be seen as ‘wake-up call’, say campaigners
- Early-Onset, Regular Cannabis Use Is Linked to IQ Decline
- Brain imaging reveals changes when smokers focus on long-term consequences of their tobacco use
- Study Parses Comorbidity of Cannabis Use and Social Anxiety
- To drink or not to drink: Decision-making center of brain identified
- How cannabis puts teenage brain at risk
- Cannabis use precedes the onset of psychotic symptoms in young people, study finds
- Daily consumption of cannabis in teens can cause depression and anxiety
- Cannabis during pregnancy endangers fetal brain development
- Epilepsy experts call for more research into medical marijuana
- The Brain Is Rewired By Alcoholism, Increasing Susceptibility To Anxiety Problems
- Child maltreatment, alcohol use and drinking consequences among male and female college students
- Social Anxiety and Coping Motives for Cannabis Use: The Impact of Experiential Avoidance.
- Age at initiation of cannabis use predicts age at onset of psychosis: the 7- to 8-year trend
- Have scientists found a way to stop the high of cannabis?
- Brain Scan Study Suggests ‘Pothead’ Stereotype Might Be Real
- Schizophrenia, Neurocognitive Dysfunction, and Substance-Related Disorders: A Review
- The Cannabis-Psychosis Link
- Cannabis & Mental Illness
- Believers Consume Fewer Drugs Than Atheists
- Scientists Discover a Novel Opiate Addiction Switch in the Brain
- Pot use may permanently damage the teenage brain
- Hard Evidence: is the teenage brain wired for addiction?
- Understanding the Neurobiological Basis of Drug Abuse: Comorbidity in Schizophrenia
- Cannabis use and brain structural alterations of the cingulate cortex in early psychosis.
- Marijuana Use Particularly Harmful for Teens, Researchers Find
- Marijuana Use in Adolescence, But Not Adulthood, Linked to Permanent Brain Damage
- Study: Kindergarten behavior can predict later drug abuse — but early intervention can help
- Risk Factor for Early Onset Dementia
- Substance abuse linked to bipolar suicide risk
- The Differential Disinhibition Effect of Marijuana Use on Violent Behaviour
- People Who Smoke Marijuana have less motivation
- Mental Health, ADHD, and Drug Abuse
- Psychomotor Function in Chronic Daily Cannabis Smokers during Sustained Abstinence
- Mental health issues linked to cannabis increase by half in four years
- Heavy, Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Mental Illness
- Long-Term Users of Ecstasy Risk Structural Brain Damage, Study Suggests
- Heavy, Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Mental Illness
- Case Study Links ‘Pot’ to Pituitary Damage
- Teenage kicks: cannabis and the adolescent brain
- Age at Initiation of Cannabis Use Predicts Age at Onset of Psychosis: The 7- to 8-Year Trend
- New Study Shows Cannabis Effects on Driving Skills
- Frequent alcohol, nicotine or cannabis use is common in young persons presenting for mental healthcare: a cross-sectional study
- Cannabis, IQ link more than socioeconomics
- Illicit drugs ‘can speed up psychosis’
- ADHD Stimulant Treatment May Decrease Risk Of Substance Abuse In Adolescent Girls; Results Mirror Findings In Boys
- ‘Cuddle Chemical’ Oxytocin Relieves Alcohol Withdrawal
- Nicotine Primes Brain for Cocaine Use: Molecular Basis of Gateway Sequence of Drug Use
- Teen pot use linked to later declines in IQ
- Club drug ecstasy harms memory, study reveals
- Marijuana Reveals Memory Mechanism
- Drug-linked mental illness rises by 100%
- More Evidence Links Early Cannabis Use to Psychosis
- Marijuana Use and Adolescents: What clinicians need to know
- Addicts’ Brains May Be Wired At Birth For Less Self-Control
- CAMH study suggests increased risk of schizophrenia in heavy methamphetamine users
- Pot Shock
- Marijuana and Schizophrenia
- Impact of cannabis use on thalamic volume in people at familial high risk of schizophrenia
- One in four at risk of cannabis psychosis
- Genetic Risk Factors for both Marijuana and Alcohol Misuse Similar
- Genes Help Determine Brain Response to Alcohol, Medication, NIAAA Says
- Study Shows Drug-Addicted Individuals May Have Less Brain Matter
- Marijuana Use Precedes the Onset Of Psychotic Symptoms In Youth and Young Adults
- One-Third of Fatally Injured Drivers with Known Test Results
- Study Links Smoking With Brain Changes and Memory Decline
- Scripps Research scientists find key mechanism in transition to alcohol dependence
- Exposure leads to more aggressive behavior and attention problems in 18-month-old girls.
- Prenatal Exposure to Nicotine Affects Stem Cells in Hippocampus
- Nicotine and Cocaine Leave Similar Mark on Brain After First Contact
- Systems-Scale Analysis Reveals Pathways Involved in Cellular Response to Methamphetamine
- Long-term ecstasy use ‘raises risk of brain damage and Alzheimer’s’
- New Cannabis-Like Drugs Could Block Pain Without Affecting Brain, Says Study
- Separating The Therapeutic Benefits Of Cannabis From Its Mood-Altering Side-Effects
- Cerebrovascular perfusion in marijuana users during a month of monitored abstinence
- Cannabis Use and Earlier Onset of Psychosis – A Systematic Meta-analysis
- Brain Scans Show Danger of Meth Exposure During Pregnancy
- Brain abnormalities could be key to understanding cocaine dependency
- Binge drinking ‘can damage memory skills’ in teen girls
- Teacher-assessed behavior of children prenatally exposed to cocaine.
- Cannabis Use and Psychosis
- Cannabis use ‘doubles risk of psychosis for teenagers’
- People who use marijuana for a long time can develop abnormalities in their brains
- Drug addiction: the neurobiology of disrupted self-control
- Addiction: Pulling at the Neural Threads of Social Behaviors
- Teen Substance Abuse Often Continues into Middle Age
- Cannabis Use and Earlier Onset of Psychosis: A Systematic Meta-analysis
- Study Reveals New Strategy for Reducing Alcohol Craving
- Sleeping Problems Linger for Recovering Alcoholics
- Teenagers, Friends and Bad Decisions
- Cannabis use and educational achievement: Findings from three Australasian cohort studies
- Link between teenage binge drinking and damage to prospective memory.
- Impulse Control Area In Brain Affected In Teens With Genetic Vulnerability For Alcoholism
- One in four at risk of cannabis psychosis
- A Generational Link to Alcohol Abuse
- Will smoking dope make me thick?
- Cocaine addicts have an altered perception of reward
- Neurophysiological link between cannabis use and schizophrenia found
- Alcoholics facing long-term brain damage
- Why Cocaine Is So Addictive: Activation of Specific Neurons Linked to Alterations in Cocaine Reward
- Liverpool University study reveals stress hormone impact on alcohol recovery
- Cocaine: Perceived As A Reward By The Brain?
- Drug Addiction: Environmental Conditions Play Major Role In Effective Treatment And Preventing Relapses, Animal Study Shows
- Brain Mechanism Linked to Relapse After Cocaine Withdrawal
- Smoking and Teenage Depression
- Studies Demonstrate Analgesic Properties Of Synthetic Cannabinoid
- Why Drug Users Become Addicts
- Tiny RNA Molecule Could Prevent Cocaine Addiction
- “Medical” Marijuana Use Has The Same Effect As Recreational Use
- Tobacco Tax Hike Could Curb Smoking Among Those With Alcohol, Drug or Mental Disorders
- Pill To Fight Alcoholism
- Low Brain Serotonin Transporter Levels In Ecstasy Users
- Translating Effective Web-based Self-help for Problem drinking into the Real World.
- Steroid Users Appear More Likely To Commit Crimes Involving Weapons And Fraud, Scientists In Sweden Report
- 20 Children A Day Treated For Alcoholism
- The Spread of Sleep Loss Influences Drug Use in Adolescent Social Networks
- Is Addiction Hereditary?
- Separate And Joint Effects Of Alcohol And Tobacco On The Nucleus Accumbens
- Low brain serotonin transporter levels in ecstasy users
- Binge Drinking Kills Teenage Brain Cells
- Separate And Joint Effects Of Alcohol And Tobacco On The Nucleus Accumbens
- Parents: Know warning signs of drug abuse
- Alcohol binge drinking linked to increased hypomania risk
- Brain damage kills craving for nicotine
- Anterior cingulate grey-matter deficits and cannabis use in first-episode schizophrenia
- Behavioral Response to Novelty Foreshadows Neurological Response to Cocaine
- Neurobiological effects of early life cannabis exposure in relation to the gateway hypothesis
- New study confirms dopamine depletion
- Abstinence regenerates alcoholic brain
- Within the mind of every smoker
- Prospective memory loss linked to teenage alcohol abuse
- Researchers Say Smokers Cost Employers in Missed Work Days, Poor Performance
- Cannabis ‘disrupts brain centre’
- Subtypes of Alcoholism Discovered
- The New Science of “Neuroplasticity”
- Nicotinic receptors may be important targets for treatment of multiple addictions
- Brain dysfunction blamed for drug fix
- Strange Protein in Brains of Drug Users
- Drinking Alcohol Associated With Smaller Brain Volume
- Psychosis More Common Among Teen Marijuana Users: Study
- More Evidence of Marijuana-Psychosis Link
- Research Triangle International – A Prevention Science Approach
- Recreational Cocaine Use May Impair Inhibitory Control
- Ecstasy Can Harm The Brains Of First-Time Users
- Teens smoking marijuana at increased schizophrenia risk
- Heavy Marijuana Use Damages Young Minds
- Everyday and prospective memory deficits in ecstasy/polydrug users
- Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review
- Common Gene Variant May Offer Protection Against Marijuana Dependence
- Chronic Abuse of Different Drugs Causes Similar Brain Changes
- New Tool Is Available for Characterizing Nicotine Receptors in the Brain
- Club Drugs Inflict Damage Similar To Traumatic Brain Injury
- Ecstasy Can Quickly Hurt Brain, Researchers Say
- Research Shows Parenting Can Prevent Drug Use, Aid Brain Development, NIDA Chief Says
- Study Shows Gene Changes in Brain Caused by Cocaine
- Electrical Brain Stimulation Shows Promise for Cocaine Treatment,
- Imaging Study Shows Awareness Deficit in Marijuana Abusers
- Daily Consumption Of Cannabis Predisposes To Appearance Of Psychosis And Schizophrenia, Study Finds
- Cannabis Damages Young Brains More Than Originally Thought, Study Finds
- Will smoking dope make me thick?
- Does the Desire for Drugs Begin Outside Awareness?
- Causes of Meth Brain Damage Explored
- Cannabinoid combination affects cannabis-linked psychological symptoms
- Effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain
- Long-term Cannabis Users May Have Structural Brain Abnormalities
- Marijuana craving in the brain
- Insight Into The Way Nicotine Works In The Brain
- Cannabis may shrink brain, scientists report
- A Polymorphism in CALHM1 Influences Ca2+ Homeostasis, Aβ Levels, and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
- Schizophrenia Linked To Dysfunction In Molecular Brain Pathway Activated By Marijuana
- Potential Medication Can Reduce Effects Of Smoked Marijuana In Humans
- Mechanism Behind Cocaine Craving Identified
- OHSU Scientists Discover Mice Lacking Dopamine Receptor Are Supersensitive To Alcohol, Cocaine And Methamphetamine
- Researchers Shed Light On Anxiety And Alcohol Intake
- Brain DNA ‘Remodeled’ In Alcoholism
- Brain Chemistry Ties Anxiety And Alcoholism
- Cocaine Addicts’ Brains Reveal Predisposition to Abuse
- Marijuana’s High Times Not Memorable with Neurons Out of Sync
- New research reveals how cannabis alters brain function
- Addicts ‘find less pleasure in life’
- Heavy Marijuana Use May Damage Developing Brain In Teens, Young Adults
- Early onset cannabis use related to brain damage
- Heavy Marijuana Use May Damage Developing Brain In Teens, Young Adults
- Coping skills training and contingency management treatments for marijuana dependence: exploring mechanisms of behavior change.
- Report finds that drug abuse harms degrees
- Marijuana Use Affects Blood Flow In Brain Even After Abstinence
- Smoking Seems To Increase Brain Damage In Alcoholics
- Scientists Show How Brain Protein is Involved in Addiction
- Cocaine Users’ Brains Behave Differently from Non-Users’
- Brain Functions That Can Prevent Relapse Improve After A Year Of Methamphetamine Abstinence
- Marijuana May Disrupt Brain Development
- Site For Alcohol’s Action In The Brain Discovered
- Denicotinized Cigarettes Affect Nicotine Receptors in Smokers’ Brains
- Genetic Variation May Increase Nicotine Craving and Smoking Relapse
- Twins Study Links Early Marijuana Use to Increased Risk of Abuse or Dependence
- Pot changes brain more than a month after use, Yale imaging study finds
- Protein Linked to Addiction, Learning Disorder
- Research Looks At How Brain Cells Adapt to Alcohol, Drugs
- Teen Brain Wired to Seek Easy Rewards
- MJ & Violence
- Drug Addiction As A Developmental Disorder
- Drug addiction relapse neurons identified
- Drug Use Sensitizes The Brain
- Brain Imaging Sheds Light On Moral Decision-Making
- E Makes You Forget Things & Fail To See Patterns
- Ecstasy Damages the Brain and Impairs Memory in Humans
- Brain Shows Ability To Recover From Some Methamphetamine Damage
- Study Shows Ritalin May Cause Long-Term Changes In The Brain
- Ecstasy link to long term brain damage
- Autopsy gives clues to Ecstasy effects
- Pregnancy, Drugs & Alcohol emotional instability: what nightmares are made of
- Stimulants Alter Experiental Brain Changes
- Meth Withdrawal Causes Brain Abnormalities
- Cannabis use dulls the brain
- Relapse Tied to Specific Brain Region
- Mayo Clinic to Study Genetics of Addiction
- Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
- Cold Turkey Works Best For Addicts
- Doctors link marijuana to mental illness
- Scientists Work on Drugs to Curb Multiple Addictions
- How our brains fend off madness
- Antisocial Disorders More Common Among Addicted
- Brain Development
- Ecstasy related to learning deficits
- Marijuana’s Effects Linger in the Brain
- Moderate Drinking, Other Lifestyle Choices Affect Alzheimers
- New Study Shows Brain Reacts To Cigarettes Like Heroin
- Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Slows Cognitive Function
- Rates of mental illness combined with drug abuse soar
- Research Reveals Faulty Biological Clock Genes Could Influence Addiction
- Studies Seek Key to Drug Users’ Impulsiveness
- Substance Abusers More Likely to Have Antisocial Disorders
- Who becomes cannabis dependent soon after onset of use?
- Adult Antisocial Syndromes Common Among Substance Abusers
- Brain Chemical Plays Critical Role In Drinking And Anxiety
- Brain Images Show How Smoking Acts on Nicotine Receptors
- Cocaine alters brain cells, impairs impulse control
- Memory, Speed of Thinking Get Worse over Time with Marijuana Use
- New Class Of Chemicals Found To Use Marijuana-Like System In Brain
- Cannabis Psychosis
- Research on the effects of cannabis on cognitive performance
- Marijuana and Schizophrenia
- Cannabis and psychiatric reactions
- Cannabis and psychiatric reactions
- Early Marijuana Use Called Pathway to Addiction
- Cigarette Smoking and Cognitive decline in Mid-Life Evidence From a Prospective Birth Cohort Study
- Rat Study Conducted by University of Georgia Researchers Suggests That Cannabis Interferes With Sustained Attention
- Smoking and drug abuse traits linked to genes
- Students who smoke marijuana likely to see lower math scores
- Evidence Accumulates That Long-Term Marijuana Users Experience Withdrawal
- Cannabinoid has no impact on spasticity associated with MS
- Study shows MS patients further impaired by smoking Low-THC marijuana
- THC-caused apoptosis linked to central nervous system abnormalities in infants
- Addiction Code in Brain
- Yale Study Terms Addiction a Developmental Disorder
- Marijuana Can Trigger Rapid Drop in Blood Pressure
- Child abuse can lead to substance abuse
- Cocaine May Compromise Immune System, Increase Risk of Infection
- Marijuana Compounds May Act Without Causing a High
- Cannabis pain relief without the high
- Drug abuse linked to brain hemmorhage in young adults
- Ecstasy and Pot : Double the memory damage
- Drug abuse linked to brain hemmorhage in young adults
- Genetics Plays Role In Relapse Of Illicit Drug-seeking Behavior
- Exposure to Marijuana in Womb May Harm Brain
- Child drug use ‘aggression link’
- Cannabis ‘linked to aggression’
- Ecstasy May Leave Brain More Prone To Infection
- Residential Student Assistance Program
- Psychosis due to “skunk”
- Cerebral Atrophy In Young Cannabis Smokers
- Wired for Addiction
- Ecstasy
- Pathology of deaths associated with “ecstasy” and “eve” misuse
- What influences young people to take drugs?
- Boys & Girls Clubs in Public Housing Developments: – Prevention Services for Youth At Risk
- Neurochemical Correlates of Cocaine-Seeking Behaviour
- Cortical and striatal circuits influenced during repeated methamphetamine administration
- Gateway Theory
- Pharmacologic Factors
- Learning Theory
- Early Marijuana Use Linked to Adult Dependence
- Not High on Math?
- Forgetting the future
- Repeated Drug Use Dulls The Memory
- Does Cocaine Used During Pregnancy Harm Developing Fetal Brain?
- Recent Scientific findings – COCAINE
- Cocaine Kills Cells In Brain’s Pleasure Centre
- Cocaine’s chemical ‘switch’ stays turned on
- Another Cocaine-Related Brain Process Identified
- Untangling The Matrix Of Risk Factors For Alcoholism
- Long-term alcohol abstinence reverses some brain structural changes
- When alcohol and nicotine interact
- Behavioural outcomes among children of alcoholics during the early and middle childhood years
- People clinically identified as substance abusers have an elevated risk of injury
- Aggressive behaviour in boys and men is not a learned behaviour
- Addiction Linked to Criminal Activity
- Cannibis Effects On the Brain & Behaviour
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