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Structure-Function Impairments Observed In People Addicted To Cocaine

Thursday, December 1, 2011

The more gray matter you have in the decision-making, thought-processing part of your brain, the better your ability to evaluate rewards and consequences.

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Drug prohibition: It’s broke, now go and fix it

Monday, November 21, 2011

consider the possibility that drug law enforcement may be ineffective, expensive and accompanied by serious unwanted adverse consequences.

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Study Of Gambling Behaviour May Improve Understanding Of Risky Choices And Gambling Addictions

Friday, June 3, 2011

Psychology researchers at the University of Alberta have found an interesting wrinkle in the decision- making process people use when gambling: People confronted with risky choices respond differently when they rely on past experiences, rather than when they just focus on the odds of winning or losing. The research team gave people two kinds of choices…

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‘It’s Not the Addiction that Kills People, It’s the Smoke’

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

It’s a very difficult problem, because any other substance that caused this much harm would simply be banned. And we, as a society, have made the decision that we’re not going to ban tobacco. — Michael Siegel

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Drink-Driving: Decision-Making Deficits Related To Driving Under The Influence Are Often Undetected

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol is a major public health problem.

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Vermont court: ‘Reduced risk’ cigarette ads are false

Friday, March 12, 2010

A Vermont court has ruled that tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds engaged in deceptive and misleading advertising in promoting its Eclipse cigarettes as less risky than conventional smokes. The case was hailed by a national anti-tobacco group as one that would be read carefully and likely followed in other states

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Seeing America—diary of a drug-focused study tour made in 1967

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

In 1965 the British government was forced to admit that the country had an escalating heroin problem, with the supply coming mainly from prescribing by private practitioners. Within the official responses to what was seen at that time as a very worrying public health situation was the decision to fund the setting-up of the Addiction Research Unit (ARU) at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. The US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) generously sponsored a study tour for the nominated director of the ARU shortly before the opening of the British research centre

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