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Alarming Number Of Texas Teens Playing The Choking Game

byncpasptat — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

Nearly one out of seven college students surveyed at a Texas university has participated in the Choking Game, a dangerous behavior where blood flow is deliberately cut off to the brain in order to achieve a high, according to a study by The Crime Victims’ Institute at Sam Houston State University…

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Interactive Effects of Approach Motivational Intensity and Alcohol Cues on the Scope of Perceptual Attention

swashkt — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:25:47 +0000

Abstract Aims: Many theoretical perspectives suggest that alcohol-related stimuli bear on attentional processes. Building upon these ideas and recent advances regarding the attention-constricting impact of approach motivational states, we predicted that mere exposure to alcohol-related images would suffice to reduce the breadth of attention among individuals who possessed a strong motivation to consume alcohol. Design: Two studies exposed participants to alcohol and neutral cues prior to assessing attention structure

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Repeated Ethanol Exposure Enhances Synaptic Plasticity In A Key Area In The Brain

symninfinny — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Drinking alcohol primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember better, says a new study from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at Austin. The common view that drinking is bad for learning and memory isn’t wrong, says neurobiologist Hitoshi Morikawa, but it highlights only one side of what ethanol consumption does to the brain…

UT Southwestern Researchers Lead Network Of Texas Scientists Trying To Find Better Drug-Addiction Treatments

gakPRamnRal — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:00:00 +0000

UT Southwestern Medical Center psychiatry researchers are leading the Texas arm of a national network that conducts clinical trials aimed at finding effective treatments for drug addiction. More than 100 community treatment providers and academic medical centers throughout the country are funded in part through the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Clinical Trials Network (CTN)…

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UTHealth Named NIH Drug Addiction Research "Center Of Excellence"

Laura Graham — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0000

By delivering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to drug abuse and addiction research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has been renewed as a “Center of Excellence” by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health…

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Mexico’s methamphetamine precursor chemical interventions: impacts on drug treatment admissions

laxirehah — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:40:00 +0000

Aims To help counter problems related to methamphetamine, Mexico has implemented interventions targeting pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, the precursor chemicals commonly used in the drug’s synthesis. This study examines whether the interventions impacted methamphetamine treatment admissions[mdash]an indicator of methamphetamine consequences.Design Quasi-experiment: autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA)-based intervention time[ndash]series analysis

Texas Raises Organ Donor Registry; D.C. Not Ready For Medical Marijuana Sales; L.A. Health Department Facing Major Service Cuts

totaldrugs — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

The Houston Chronicle: “Though Texas has the nation’s lowest percentage of registered organ and tissue donors, several recent initiatives have more than doubled the state’s donor rolls this year.

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New Screening System For Hepatitis C

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0000

A newly designed system of identifying molecules for treating hepatitis C should enable scientists to discover novel and effective therapies for the dangerous and difficult-to-cure disease of the liver, says Zhilei Chen, a Texas A&M University assistant professor of chemical engineering who helped develop the screening system…

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