Showing posts with label cocaine addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cocaine addiction. Show all posts
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Freud and his Drug Demons

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Cocaine addiction and psychoanalysis. That Sigmund Freud was a cocaine abuser for some portion of his professional life is by now well kn...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

The Losing Battle For Perpetual Reward

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Or why you can't stay high forever. The amphetamine high, like the cocaine high, is a marvel of biochemical efficiency. Stimulants ...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Let the Light Shine In: Addiction and Optogenetics

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Study says laser light can turn cocaine addiction on and off in rats. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Healt...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Biology of Stimulants, or Why You Can’t Stay High Forever

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An essay on the losing battle for perpetual reward. The amphetamine high, like the cocaine high, is a marvel of biochemical efficiency. S...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Chasing the Genes for Cocaine Addiction

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Brain protein MeCP2 in the spotlight. Dr. Edward Sellers, former director of the psychopharmacological research program at the University ...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Cocaine Treatment and the Stroop Test

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Treatment dropouts do poorly on color/word match. It’s commonly used to demonstrate behavioral inhibition, but it’s also a nifty parlor ga...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

The Cocaine Conundrum

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Effective treatment remains elusive. For addiction to cocaine, amphetamine, and other stimulants, the treatment picture has been complicat...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Perils of Fair-Weather Cocaine

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The higher the temp, the higher the death rate. As spring approaches, cocaine users might take note of further evidence of a connection be...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Cocaine Vaccine Hits Snag

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Some addicts risk OD to overcome its effects. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has increasingly placed its bets on treating co...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

The Black Market for Seroquel

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Speed freaks, coke heads, and antipsychotics. Last week, writing on the Daily Beast web site, reporter Jeff Deeney profiled a startling und...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Another Round of Trials for Vigabatrin

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Firm secures funding for anti-craving tests. A Florida pharmaceutical company has secured financing for additional testing of the anti-addic...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Who are Cocaine’s Primary Victims?

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The answer may surprise you. They are not necessarily the poor, the desperate, or the weak-willed. A National Institute of Drug Abuse ...
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Friday, May 1, 2009

Guest Post: Things Go Better with Meth

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The Pepsi Challenge with controlled substances. [Today’s post comes to us from Neurological Correlates , a blog devoted to the neuroscience...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Pharmacokinetics of Speed

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Meth lingers longer than coke, targets different brain areas. Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory , already famous for their wo...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Drugs for Cocaine Addiction

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Researchers target GABA, noradrenaline . According to Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners , a company conducting research on drugs for the trea...
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