22nd Century Group, Inc. (OTCBB: XXII), a company that has developed groundbreaking technology for tobacco harm reduction and smoking cessation products, today announced that the company has delivered an additional 2.7 million SPECTRUM® research cigarett
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Recent bulletins from the drug and alcohol Bank : Single question enough to identify most heavy drinking offenders
Over the last 5 years, synthetic stimulants known as “bath salts” have become more popular amongst recreational drug users because of their easy unrestricted availability over the Internet and at convenience stores. There are virtually no regulations in place to restrict the sale of these stimulants…
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At their meeting last week in Salt Lake City, members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) attended a workshop entitled, “Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?” conducted by Dr. Brad Rodu, chair of tobacco harm reduction research at the University of
The current evidence suggests that, far from causing former smokers to “re-ignite their nicotine addiction,” electronic cigarettes are helping nicotine-addicted smokers to become former smokers, or at least to cut down substantially on the amount they sm
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Tagged addiction, alternate/reduced risk, become-former, causing-former, current-evidence, cut-down, electronic-cigarettes, harm-reduction, nicotine, nicotine-addiction, op-ed
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Abstract Aims Novel methods in behavioral economics permit the systematic assessment of the relationship between cigarette consumption and price. Towards informing tax policy, the goals of this study were to conduct a high-resolution analysis of cigarette demand in a large sample of adult smokers and to use the data to estimate the effects of tax increases in 10 US States
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Surveys of drug use form an important basis for the development of effective drug policies, and also for measuring the effectiveness of existing policies. For the first time in history, scientists have now made direct comparisons of illicit drug use in 19 European cities by a cooperative analysis of raw sewage samples…
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Researchers from the University of Kentucky have designed and discovered a series of highly efficient enzymes that effectively metabolize cocaine. These high-activity cocaine-metabolizing enzymes could potentially prevent cocaine from producing physiological effects, and could aid in the treatment of drug dependency…
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SIDEBAR: At a glance — ALEC panel pushes smokeless tobacco
Researchers reporting online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The findings represent a key advance for optogenetics, a state-of-the-art method for making causal connections between brain activity and behavior…
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