Firm Previews New Form of Painkiller; Abuse Experts Worried – Evansville Courier-Press

Firm previews new form of painkiller; abuse experts worried – Evansville Courier-Press
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Analysts say the market is worth billions of dollars. But critics fear the new hydrocodone drugs could unleash a new wave of abuse like the one that accompanied the debut of OxyContin in the 1990s. “It’s a prescription opiate arms race …
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Youth Drug Use: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Whitehouse.gov (press release)
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Recently, I joined officials from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Health and Human Services to announce the results of the largest annual survey on youth drug use in America. NIDA’s annual “Monitoring the Future” study …
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Barbara Kay: Free booze for alcoholics makes perfect logic, but no sense
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In the world of substance abuse and addiction, “everything” was in the news today. A group from Vancouver's notorious hub of drug addiction and policy experimentation, the Downtown East Side, is proposing that a publicly funded, peer-run drinker's …
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Internet addiction changes your brain: Study
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"There may exist partially overlapping mechanisms in IAD and substance use. We hoped that our results will enhance our understanding of IAD and aid in improving the diagnosis and prevention of IAD," the study's authors wrote. Internet addiction is a …
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Drugs of Abuse and Addiction: Neurobehavioral Toxicology (Handbooks in Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Drugs of Abuse and Addiction: Neurobehavioral Toxicology examines drugs of abuse and addiction and how they affect behavior. This …

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