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Addiction: Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. It is considered a brain disease because drugs change the brain-they change its structure and how it works. These brain changes can be long-lasting, and can lead to the harmful behaviors seen in people who abuse drugs. Addiction is a lot like other diseases, such as heart disease. Both disrupt the normal, healthy functioning of the underlying organ, have serious harmful consequences, and are preventable and treatable, but if left untreated, can last a lifetime.
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JUN 27, 2018
Health & Medicine
The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes a guide called the International Classification of Disease. It gets revise
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 21, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
For years researchers, journalists, and anti-drug organizations have touted that cannabis is the gateway drug to harder
...
Written By:
Melissa Moore
JUN 19, 2018
Health & Medicine
For some, the decision to quit smoking is a turning point. They put down the pack, throw away the matches and deal with
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 13, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
A drug discovery company known as C4X Discovery (C4XD) has developed its very own virtual reality (VR) tool known as 4Si
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
JUN 12, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
It may sound like a paradox to produce a drug that is used to treat a drug addiction but scitnfcially speaking this is a
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
JUN 05, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
Marijuana use during pregnancy may have consequences for infants’ weight and behavior, particularly in combination
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAY 31, 2018
Neuroscience
Recovering from trauma is difficult for anyone because trauma is a very individual experience. An event that will
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 30, 2018
Neuroscience
There's a lot of buzz about video games and children. Concerns range from the violence to the flashing screens and f
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 13, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
As more states move away from prohibition of cannabis more questions are being asked about the effects cannabis has on t
...
Written By:
Melissa Moore
MAY 10, 2018
Health & Medicine
Putting child-safe caps on medication has been going on for decades, but the opioid crisis is looming large, and as a re
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 08, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
Investigators at the University of Texas at Austin have successfully used animal models to examine a drug believed to in
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAY 08, 2018
Neuroscience
We've all seen them, and most of us have several stored on our phones, but could a simple photograph of ourselves, c
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 04, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis is known to inhibit the cytochrome enzymes P450. This family of enzymes metabolizes more than half of all
...
Written By:
Melissa Moore
MAY 01, 2018
Neuroscience
It's been called both a crisis and an epidemic and health professionals do not throw those terms around casually. Th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 28, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
In the wake of the opiod epidemic a state has taken a proactive step in the direction to curb the addiction and mortalit
...
Written By:
Melissa Moore
APR 24, 2018
Health & Medicine
The problem of addiction is reaching epidemic proportions in the United States as well as in other countries. Opioids sp
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 19, 2018
Videos
There is a lot of concern for the mental health care system and getting patients the right kind of help with the right p
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 18, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
New work could offer fresh insight into several mental disorders.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 10, 2018
Videos
The US Surgeon General's primary responsibility is to oversee topics of public health. Current SG Jerome Adams has recen
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 09, 2018
Neuroscience
It's the job of advertising executives and marketing professionals to design campaigns that make consumers want thei
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 28, 2018
Neuroscience
Many neurological conditions are progressive. The disease begins, perhaps mildly at first, but then gets worse. This is
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 23, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
A total of 29 U.S. states and D.C. have laws that legalize medical cannabis in some form, and it is allowed recreational
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
MAR 22, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
It seems that a cup of morning joe influences many aspects of our physiology, including the pathway affected by marijuan
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch