Items tagged with substance-use disorder
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| Cannabis: high potency strains linked to greater chance of anxiety – new research [30.05.2020] | Numerous studies have now shown that people who use cannabis have a higher likelihood of experiencing mental health problems. The potency of the drug ... |
| Canada’s opioid crisis: The people and communities fighting for change and finding solutions [23.12.2019] | The drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in Canada, with no communities spared. Now, many are banding together to speak up and find solutions. ... |
| Cannabis use disorder is rising in U.S. states where weed is legal [13.11.2019] | Rates of cannabis use disorder have risen in U.S. states where the drug has been legalized, including among children and teenagers, according to a st ... |
| Study finds declining trend in prevalence of cannabis use disorder among frequent users [30.10.2019] | The prevalence of cannabis use disorder decreased in 2002 to 2016 among frequent users,, according to a new study conducted at Columbia University Ma ... |
| Drug research ignores stable or pleasurable use — And that’s a problem [27.08.2019] | In the United States and beyond, drug research ignores most people who use drugs. While the large majority of people who use drugs (PWUD) do not suff ... |
| Marijuana addiction is real, and teenage users are most at risk [15.01.2018] | Cases of substance-use disorders are exactly what the federal government is hoping to avoid in its push to legalize recreational marijuana, and they ... |
| Illicit drug users and doctors who treat them push to end ‘stigmatizing’ language [29.01.2017] | Calling someone a junkie was once the norm, but many people who use illicit drugs and those who treat them say the word addict is just as stigmatizin ... |
| Needle vs needle: a vaccine for drug addiction? [13.07.2016] | Apparently they are working on a vaccine for drug addiction (specifically, opiate addiction). There are already studies into vaccinating against coca ... |
| Why addiction is not a disease: the liberal case [07.06.2016] | Is addiction a disease? Most people think so. The idea has become entrenched in our news media, our treatment facilities, our courts, and in the hear ... |
| Barack Obama: 'drug addiction is a health problem, not a criminal problem' [30.03.2016] | Barack Obama committed to take on America’s growing heroin and prescription opioid epidemic by devoting resources to prevention and treatment, rather ... |
| The tipping point in addiction [04.02.2016] | The other giant error in addiction is the neurobiological "chronic brain disease" hypothesis, created and widely publicized by the National Institute ... |
| Courts are forcing marijuana users to get drug treatment they probably don’t need [13.12.2015] | Opponents of marijuana legalization often cite the "skyrocketing" number of people seeking treatment for marijuana addiction in their arguments. Proj ... |
| Heroin addiction: How to smack it down [06.11.2015] | Ireland would establish "medically supervised injecting facilities" where heroin addicts can take their drugs, using clean equipment, under doctors’ ... |
| Plan to send Russian drug addicts to labor camps slammed by experts [14.04.2015] | Russia's Federal Drug Control Service's proposal to revive Soviet-era work camps in order to treat drug addicts was met with skepticism by leading he ... |
| The weed war undermines science [10.02.2015] | Columbia professor Carl Hart: "The National Institute on Drug Abuse funds 90 percent of the world's research on drug abuse with our tax dollars. The ... |
| No, weed won’t rot your brain [17.04.2014] | Headlines are screaming Marijuana Makes Young Brains Go to Pot. But a new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, does not in any way prove ... |
| The city of Utrecht wants to convince mentally ill marijuana users to smoke better pot [12.09.2013] | Thanks in part to the Netherlands' policy of marijuana decriminalization, there are people living in the Dutch city of Utrecht whose addiction to can ... |
| East African discourses on khat and sex [01.09.2010] | The study aims to review and analyse the varied East African discourses on the effects of khat use on libido, fertility, transmission of HIV, prostit ... |
| Yemen: Towards Qat Demand Reduction [01.06.2007] | This report, based on a household survey conducted in 2006, discusses options for discouraging qat consumption in Yemen. It draws on a survey - the f ... |
| A tale of two cannabinoids [01.01.2006] | This study examines the current knowledge of physiological and clinical effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) and presents a ra ... |
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