Study: Marijuana Top Illegal Drug Used Worldwide

Published August 30, 2013

Study: Marijuana top illegal drug used worldwide
LONDON (AP) — Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug used worldwide, but addictions to popular painkillers like Vicodin, Oxycontin and codeine kill the most people, according to the first-ever global survey of illicit drug abuse. In addition to …
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Study in mice links cocaine use to new brain structures
Cocaine exposure increases spine gains in the frontal cortex. Repeated imaging of dendrites from Thy1 YFP-H mice. Light green arrows indicate spines gained, red arrows indicate spines lost. Scale bars represent 5 µm. Credit: Nature Neuroscience, DOI: …
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Study Links Cocaine Use to New Brain Structures
(Ivanhoe Newswire) –According to researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UC San Francisco, mice given cocaine showed rapid growth in new brain structures linked with memory and learning. Researchers used a microscope that …
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