Thursday, February 2, 2012
A study conducted by Dr. Karen Ersche, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, England, and published in Science, reveals that one sibling who is addicted to drugs, and the other who is not, have similar brain abnormalities. These abnormalities come from an area of the brain that is vital for aiding people in exhibiting self control…
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
People who are alcohol-dependent and who also carry a particular variant of a gene run an increased risk of premature death. This is a recent finding from the interdisciplinary research at the Department of Psychology and the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden…
Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Health Committee has voiced concerns over plans to pass control of Public Health budgets to Local Government in a new Public Health report . Launching the
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in collaboration with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (State/INL), has awarded the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) a $770,000 grant to support efforts to develop substance abuse services in Iraq…
A study of the 5.3 million men and women seen in Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics in a one-year period found that use of cocaine is predictive of open-angle glaucoma, the most common type of glaucoma. The study revealed that after adjustments for race and age, current and former cocaine users had a 45 percent increased risk of glaucoma…
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Wine makers “systematically” understate the strengths of wines , according to a Guardian report . A study found that that 57% of the wines analysed were stronger than on the label; average ABV content was found at 13.6% but the average labelled strength was 13.1%. The analysis also revealed that strength of wine across the world has risen by almost once per cent in recent years
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US smoking levels have been on a constant decline as people become more conscious of cigarette’s hazardous effects on both their bodies and wallets.
DrugScope, the national membership organisation representing the drug sector, has today responded to the release of figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which show that 79,360 people who claim Incapacity Benefit (IB) have either a drug or alcohol dependency. The DWP figures show that of the total number of IB claimants (2,082,570, figures from August 2010), 1…
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The 3 year Alcohol Improvement Programme ( AIP ), funded by the Department of Health, has now come to an end. The AIP provided support the NHS and third sector in delivering on alcohol harm reduction, particularly around the High Impact Changes .
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Also tagged alc, alcohol, alcohol-harm, harm-reduction, health, impact-changes, learning, notice, programme, support-the-nhs
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According to a study conducted at the Department of Pedagogy of the University of Granada, about six out of ten male drug-abusers direct some type of violence against their intimate partners. Thus, the study revealed a high rate of domestic violence both pysical and psychological by male drug-abusers against women…