Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour

Nurses should be given powers to prescribe cocaine on the Health Service to addicts, Government drug experts ruled yesterday
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BHS student asks for help forming a support group for family members of the addicted

BROCKTON? High school freshman Ciara Roderick knows that she is not the only student at Brockton High School who has a family member struggling with drug addiction.
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Family helped by News Neediest says its support was life-changing

It?s almost a year later, and Debora Merchant is still grateful to The News Neediest fund for making last Christmas happen.
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Recipients sing the praises of life-changing support

It?s almost a year later, and Debora Merchant is still grateful to The News Neediest fund for making last Christmas happen.
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Molecular foreman discovered for brain wiring

Researchers have identified a master regulatory molecule that is responsible for triggering the remodeling of neuronal connections that is critical for learning.
From: www.news-medical.net

Potential Strategies For Treatment Of Neurodevelopmental And Psychiatric Diseases

Researchers have identified a master regulatory molecule that is responsible for triggering the remodeling of neuronal connections critical for learning. Malfunctioning of the connection-remodeling machinery that they identified may also play a role in mental retardation, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. [click link for full article]
From: www.medicalnewstoday.com

Master regulatory molecule for brain wiring identified

Washington, Nov 22 (ANI): A master regulatory molecule, which is responsible for triggering the remodelling of neuronal connections that is critical for learning, has been identified by a research co-authored by an Indian researcher. The study, led by Peter Penzes, co-authored by Deepak P. Srivastava and team, which identified the malfunctioning of the connection-remodelling machinery, might ...
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WTRF Healthwatch for Nov. 12

Doctors are retiring at a younger age, and teens who smoke are more likely to get into other trouble.
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New pill available for drug-rehab patients in county

By CARL BURNETT JR. LANCASTER - A new pill made available in the last five years is offering a lot of hope to drug addicts and the people who treat them.
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Sleep, And How Cocaine Changes The Brain To Make Treatment So Difficult

New research clarifies the role of drugs of abuse on sleep, why cocaine is so powerful, and the brain changes that occur due to abuse that make addiction so difficult to treat. Studies have found that addictive drugs such as cocaine affect many circadian, or biological clock, genes including two which have been shown to regulate dopamine, a brain chemical that underlies the rewarding effects of ...
From: www.sciencedaily.com

Enzyme regulates brain pathology induced by cocaine, stress

Researchers have uncovered a key genetic switch that chronic cocaine or stress influences to cause the brain to descend into a pathological state. In studies with mice they showed how chronic cocaine changes gene activity to enhance the addictive reward from the drug. And they showed similarly how chronic stress induces the same kinds of changes that hypersensitizes the brain, causing ...
From: www.eurekalert.org

Nicotine-alcohol combination affects learning abilities

New York, Nov 7 - The ill effects of both nicotine and alcohol are well documented. But a new study says that in combination they are even more harmful.
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Nicotine-alcohol interaction impacts learning, could have implications for addiction treatment

The interaction between nicotine and alcohol, two of the most abused and co-abused drugs, can impact a person?s ability to learn and could have implications for treating addiction, according to researchers at Temple University.
From: www.eurekalert.org

Liberia: Bush Applauds Recipients of 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Bush honored the recipients of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony November 5, noting that each of the eight recipients "came to this distinction by very different paths."
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Bush Applauds Recipients of 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Bush honors the recipients of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony, noting that each of the eight recipients ?came to this distinction by very different paths.? The Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award that a U.S. president can bestow, ?is designed to recognize great contributions to national security, the cause of peace and freedom, science, the ...
From: usinfo.state.gov

Researchers discover drug-craving brain region in rats

Chilean researchers have identified a region of the brain - the insular cortex - that plays a role in drug craving in amphetamine-addicted rats, according to a report published in the 26 October issue of the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nonprofit science society.
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Drug-craving Brain Region In Rats Discovered

A region of the brain -- the insular cortex -- plays a role in drug craving in amphetamine-addicted rats, according to an article in Science. This finding ultimately may help support the development of new therapies to treat drug addiction as well as certain behavioral side effects of medications.
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Breaking the cycle of drug addiction and crime

Long-term treatment for addicts in US prisons may offer a way out for a million drug users
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Hooked: Why your brain is primed for addiction

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Starving is like ecstasy use for anorexia sufferers

The eating condition affects the brain in a similar way to psychostimulant drugs, say researchers, possibly indicating targets for new treatments
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