Un nuovo studio ha scoperto che avere un intervento chirurgico può esporre i pazienti a un rischio più elevato di sviluppare dipendenza da oppioidi a lungo termine. Secondo l'indagine, circa il 6% delle persone che non avevano assunto...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released a number of new resources.
These are aimed at those working within the criminal justice system and other environments where people in recovery from drug addiction are ready to return...
Una nuova ricerca condotta da scienziati dello Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) può portare allo sviluppo di trattamenti personalizzati per la dipendenza da alcol. Lo studio ha valutato come le risposte delle persone nel cervello...
Marijuana use may increase the risk of stroke and heart failure.
This was concluded to be the case even after accounting for demographic and lifestyle risk factors, as well as other health conditions.
The new findings on the potential...
La cocaina esercita i suoi effetti stimolanti comportamentali facilitando le azioni sinaptiche dei neurotrasmettitori come la dopamina e la serotonina. È anche neurotossico e ampiamente citotossico, portando a morti per overdose...
Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their...
New research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found through a comparison of treatment approaches for opioid dependence that, in an emergency setting, combining the medication buprenorphine with on-going care is...
What is already known about this topic?
Fentanyl has a growing presence in the illicit drug market and is involved in an increasing proportion of opioid overdose deaths.
What is added by this report?
Approximately two thirds of...
Tra le persone che si stanno riprendendo dai disturbi da uso di sostanze, coloro che fumano hanno maggiori probabilità di ricadere tre anni dopo rispetto a quelli che non lo fanno, secondo i nuovi risultati pubblicati su The Journal of...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has published an extended overview detailing the impact of certain drugs on brain functioning, as well as the most common experimental methods used in related research.
Neuroscientists primarily...
New research from Cardiff University has found:
The social media quit-smoking intervention – Tweet2Quit – sends automated daily communications to private self-help groups, encouraging high-quality peer-to-peer discussions online. It is very low cost and has a potential global reach.
A...
One of our selection of hot topics, analyses of important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Programmes distributing the opiate overdose antidote naloxone have become the great new hope for curbing the rise in drug-related...
This manual is designed to teach cultural competence concepts, values, and strategies for engagement and treatment with Hispanics and Latinos with substance use disorders (SUD). The manual introduces a basic understanding of cultural...
La gestione delle contingenze (CM) è una terapia comportamentale ampiamente utilizzata per i disturbi da uso di sostanze. Offre ricompense materiali per la partecipazione alle sessioni e l'adesione ai corsi di farmaci prescritti, tra gli...
Recentemente pubblicato sulla rivista Pediatrics, il primo studio prospettico sui cannabinoidi sintetici (SC) – sostanze chimiche che imitano gli effetti della marijuana – collega i sintomi depressivi e il consumo di marijuana e alcol con...
According to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, US college students who consume medium-to-high levels of alcohol and marijuana have a consistently lower grade point average (GPA).
The investigation compared...
Un nuovo studio pubblicato sulla rivista Biological Psychiatry afferma che il desiderio di cocaina può essere ridotto bloccando la segnalazione da un sistema specifico nel cervello principalmente responsabile della promozione della veglia e...
Recently published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, a new study claims the existence of a link between childhood abuse and opioid use later in life.
According to the investigation, emotional abuse, specifically, more so than sexual or...
Robust messages for the government from the UK’s official drug policy advisers:
