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Is Internet Addiction Due To A Genetic Mutation?
According to researchers from the University of Bonn and the ZI Mannheim, internet addiction is not just something we've made up in society, but may actually be due to our genetics. During the last years, the researchers has asked 843 people about their internet usage. After looking at their responses, the authors determined that 132 of these individuals, both men and women, have problems regarding their internet behavior. This was determined by how the volunteers reacted when told they maybe have to be without internet and how they felt they were benefitting from being online...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 29, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news

Better Living through Chemistry: Make Self-Medicating Work for You
We all self-medicate. Be sure you do so thoughtfully and safely.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 29, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP Tags: Addiction Integrative Medicine Psychiatry Self-Help alertness bartender coffee shop downer family history family member favorite restaurant food beverages medical consultation medication medications medicine cabinet medicin Source Type: news

[Research Article] The Complex of G Protein Regulator RGS9-2 and G{beta}5 Controls Sensitization and Signaling Kinetics of Type 5 Adenylyl Cyclase in the Striatum
By suppressing cAMP production in the striatum, the RGS9-2/G{beta}5 complex could affect the development of opioid addiction.
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - August 29, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Keqiang Xie, Ikuo Masuho, Cameron Brand, Carmen W. Dessauer, Kirill A. Martemyanov Source Type: news

Study Finds Regular Marijuana Use Damages Teenage Brains
A new study suggests that regular marijuana use in one's teens can cause declines in both IQ and cognitive functioning years later. read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 29, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Guy Winch, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Cognition Health Parenting adolescence adolescents brain brain damage brains cannabis casual users chronic users cognitive declines cognitive functioning cognitive testing complaining complaints daily basis in Source Type: news

New weight-loss drugs provide more options for overweight women
The first new weight-loss drugs in more than a decade are now on pharmacists' shelves. Will these medications provide the solution many overweight women are seeking? The September 2012 issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch looks at the benefits—and risks—of both new and established weight-loss drugs. In June, the FDA approved lorcaserin (Belviq). It suppresses hunger by stimulating a receptor serotonin, a chemical messenger in the brain that regulates fullness and metabolism. A month later, the FDA approved Qsymia, a combination of phentermine and the antiseizure/antimigraine drug topiramate. Qsymia also suppre...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - August 29, 2012 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Suicide, overdose risks high when addicts leave hospital
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drug users just getting out of the hospital have another rough patch in store, according to a new UK report showing elevated death rates among freshly discharged patients.
Source: Modern Medicine - August 29, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news

Developing a Drug-Free Lifestyle
Source: About.com Alcoholism - August 29, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

GW professor receives grant to study the role of genes in drug addiction
(George Washington University) Norman H. Lee, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received a total of $405,001 in grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to continue to study the correlation between genetics and susceptibility to drug abuse.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Internet addiction -- Causes at the molecular level
(University of Bonn) Everybody is talking about Internet addiction. Medically, this phenomenon has not yet been as clearly described as nicotine or alcohol dependency. But a study conducted by researchers from the University of Bonn and the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim now provides indications that there are molecular-genetic connections in Internet addiction, too. The results is reported in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The print version appears in the September issue.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

'Calling' Helps Docs Treat Tough Conditions
(MedPage Today) -- Primary care physicians who felt "called” to practice medicine were more likely to be satisfied helping patients with difficult-to-treat conditions such as as nicotine and alcohol addiction as well as obesity, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology - August 28, 2012 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

Video Games, Problem-Solving and Self-Efficacy - Part 3
Many people have the image of video games as socially isolating, if not psychologically addicting. Unlike email, texting, or even a phone call, however, playing a game with someone creates a sense of actually doing something together. read more
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - August 28, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pamela Brown Rutledge, Ph.D., M.B.A. Tags: Child Development Education Happiness Media Parenting Resilience affinity groups coffee shops de ridder fiero flow flow state friend kristin friends and partners game developers game development game environments learning Source Type: news

Are You a Compulsive Happiness-Seeker?
Eastern spiritual wisdom has much to say about happiness. Combining Eastern wisdom with Western psychology and wellness can reveal some interesting facts and clear strategies for finding deep and abiding happiness — and resisting compulsive pleasure-seeking.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 28, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Jeff Skolnick, M.D., P.h.D. Tags: Addiction Happiness Self-Help abiding sense cultural biases eastern traditions fades letting go of control low dopamine levels nirvana notions profound thought rare moments secretion sensation spiritual wisdom stages of hum Source Type: news

Fighting the Wrong War On Drugs
We are fighting a battle against illegal drug cartels we can't possibly win, while we have not yet begun the war against the dangers of prescription drug abuse that we couldn't possibly lose. read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 28, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Allen J. Frances, M.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Law and Crime Psychiatry FDA lethal overdose overtreatment pharmaceutical industry polypharmacy regulation war on drugs Source Type: news

Health Highlights: Aug. 28, 2012
High Levels of Toxins Found in Kids' School Supplies Second Yosemite Visitor Dies of Rodent-Borne Illness GMA's Robin Roberts Begins Medical Leave Next Week Number of Addicted Newborns in Kentucky Soars 2,400 Percent
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Health News - August 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Family Medicine, WebScout, Source Type: news

Kenya: Canadian Donors to Build Drug Rehab in Mombasa
[The Star]Donors from Canada have announced plans to set up a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in Mombasa.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 28, 2012 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Teen Cannabis Use Linked To Lower IQ
Persistent cannabis use among teenagers under 18 years of age results in neuropsychological decline, which persists even after they stop smoking, researchers from the USA and UK reported in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. The authors added that the decrease in IQ did not seem to occur among persistent cannabis users who started after the age of 18. Persistent cannabis use means daily pot smoking. They found that early-onset regular pot users had IQs 8 points lower than their counterparts who never smoked or started after they were 18 years of age...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

Addiction's Effect on the Brain
Source: About.com Alcoholism - August 28, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

6 NARSAD Young Investigator Grants awarded to CAMH
(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) Six researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have received prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator Grants from the US-based Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Persistent Teenage Cannabis Use Linked To Long Term Cognitive Decline
Persistent cannabis use among teenagers under 18 years of age results in neuropsychological decline, which persists even after they stop smoking, researchers from the USA and UK reported in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. The authors added that the decrease in IQ did not seem to occur among persistent cannabis users who started after the age of 18. Persistent cannabis use means daily pot smoking. They found that early-onset regular pot users had IQs 8 points lower than their counterparts who never smoked or started after they were 18 years of age...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

The Body in the Mind
Almost everything the mind does depends on the body.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 27, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: John Montgomery, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Cognition Eating Disorders Neuroscience Self-Help belief body maps brain cognitive science researchers desires discoveries emotional pain emotions feelings hunger pangs integral role intuitive sense longings m Source Type: news

How teenagers addicted to cannabis risk damaging their IQ and show signs normally seen in early Alzheimer's
A study at King's College London found a marked drop in intelligence in those who started using the drug in their teens and continued to take it for years afterwards.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Substance Abuse Treatment Leader Miramar Treatment Center Improves...
Leading Southern California addiction and dual diagnosis treatment center partners with renowned call center to provide patients with caring, compassionate and competent information regarding...(PRWeb August 27, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Drug/Rehab/prweb9829112.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - August 27, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Health Highlights: Aug. 27, 2012
GMA's Robin Roberts Begins Medical Leave Next Week Number of Addicted Newborns in Kentucky Soars 2,400 Percent
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Health News - August 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Family Medicine, WebScout, Source Type: news

Your Love is My Drug
Long-term love activates the same brain regions as drugs, food, and other pleasures.read more
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - August 27, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jordan Gaines Tags: Neuroscience Relationships addictive drug arthur aron attachment brain activity chocolate brains dopamine functional magnetic resonance functional magnetic resonance imaging going to extremes human emotions love lucy brown mate Source Type: news

Self-Medication or Self-Destruction?
While early trauma may fertilize the soil for addiction, it's clear that addiction itself is traumatic. After a while, the psychic pain elicited by the addiction can dwarf historical factors and require more and more self-medication—a vicious circle that seems to lie at the heart of the problem.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 27, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Marc Lewis, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Depression Neuroscience addiction as self-medication addictive behaviors bad feelings bathtub boarding school disease model disease model of addiction good doctors heroin history of trauma iatrogenic lonelin Source Type: news

Could Ecstasy Have Therapeutic Benefits?
Professor David Nutt, author of the recent book, "Drugs Without the Hot Air," recently wrote in the Guardian about how he has wanted to do research into the therapeutic potential of Ecstasy for years, but red tape has always got in the way. ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Addictions - August 27, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Kentucky sees surge in addicted infants
More than half the babies in University Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit one day this month were suffering from drug withdrawal.
Source: USATODAY.com Health - August 26, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

¿Painkillers saved my life, then they almost killed me¿
Journalist Cathryn Kemp, who was diagnosed with pancreatitis and ME in 2004 and prescribed powerful pills to cope with the pain, describes how her life unravelled as addiction tightened its grip.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 26, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Would we all be happier without marriage?
Since the cocaine-rush of new love feels so universally amazing, and poses no legal consequences, why don’t we all just make a lifestyle of repeatedly falling in love? Not so fast—there are three fundamental problems with this idea…read more
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - August 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Shauna H. Springer Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Happiness Relationships addicted to love crack cocaine death and divorce falling in love fourth marriage lifelong love lover ' s high new love affair obsessive love remarrying serial monogamy Source Type: news

The Health Effects of Drug Abuse
Source: About.com Alcoholism - August 25, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

My Daughter Missed Too Much School
What to do with a teen who is missing schoolread more
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - August 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Barbara Greenberg, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Sleep addiction amount of time amp attempts cell phones dear mother education Facebook homework mental health professionals mind readers missing school mommybloggers multitasking parents psychiatrist repeat pe Source Type: news

AA's co-founder thought LSD might help cure alcoholics. So what? | John Sutherland
Of course Bill Wilson was wrong, but the real question is whether it is ever legitimate to use a drug to fight a drugSo, we are told, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous seems to have believed, for a while, that LSD might be the royal road to sobriety. Fight a drug with a drug. A hypocrite? No, not really.I remember when I finally plucked up nerve to "share" at an AA "participation meeting". It was a long rambling confession about what a bad person I was. A grizzled old-timer looked across the table at me and said: "This isn't a training for the priesthood, son. It's about not drinking for the next 24 hours." Keep it si...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 24, 2012 Category: Science Authors: John Sutherland Tags: Comment is free Source Type: news

Have You Ever Noticed? People Take Drugs
Do you ever get the feeling that drugs and intoxicants are here to stay and wonder whether our public health policy is up to this reality?read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 24, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Stanton Peele Tags: Addiction addiction medicine all star game american icon american icons dr faustus drug users hedgemony lance armstrong melky cabrera natural abilities NIDA Nora Volkow performance drugs performance enhancing drugs profession Source Type: news

Acetaldehyde Formed After Alcohol Consumption Damages DNA, May Increase Risk Of Cancer
Almost 30 years after discovery of a link between alcohol consumption and certain forms of cancer, scientists are reporting the first evidence from research on people explaining how the popular beverage may be carcinogenic. The results, which have special implications for hundreds of millions of people of Asian descent, were reported at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. Silvia Balbo, Ph.D., who led the study, explained that the human body breaks down, or metabolizes, the alcohol in beer, wine and hard liquor...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 24, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
Source: About.com Alcoholism - August 24, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Cursing Echo: Can Dolphins Help Us Speak Our Mind?
Last in a series about addiction and recovery. Do recovery communities help or hinder? In their quest for recovery, addicts can easily find themselves echoing messages all but drained of personal meaning. The result can be an endless cycle, not of addiction, but of growth-blocking compliance to a will not really their own.read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - August 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Seth Slater, M.F.A. Tags: Addiction Animal Behavior Anxiety Self-Help ability acquire addicts anonymity blowhole brokenness captivity change community confines corrections crippling critical phase cycle danger dolphin dolphins Echo eus Source Type: news

LSD could help alcoholics stop drinking, AA founder believed
Author reveals Bill Wilson's acid theory, but his experiments upset other Alcoholics Anonymous membersThe co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) believed LSD could be used to cure alcoholics and credited the drug with helping his own recovery from often debilitating depression, according to new research.About 20 years after setting up the Ohio-based sobriety movement in 1935, Bill Wilson came to believe that LSD could help "cynical alcoholics" achieve a "spiritual awakening" and start on the path to recovery.The discovery that Wilson considered using the drug as an aid to recovery for addicts was made by Don Lattin, autho...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 23, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Amelia Hill Tags: Science Source Type: news

Townsend Soars on Annual Inc. 500|5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies
New Orleans, Aug. 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Townsend, a network of Louisiana addiction treatment centers, today announced its second consecutive year in being named to the Inc. 500|5000, Inc. Magazine's annual list of the nation's fastest growing private companies. This year, Townsend landed in the top 200 fastest growing companies at No. 183 and the top 15 healthcare companies at No. 14.
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - August 23, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Do Post-Market Drug Trials Need a Higher Dose of Ethics?
Say you have high blood pressure . There's a new blockbuster drug on the market, and your doctor lets you know about a new clinical trial you can join that is testing the new treatment against an old tried-and-true one. What's not to like? You're going to be taking, under the care of experts, one of two U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved medications. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - August 23, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Mind & Brain,Technology,Society Policy,Everyday Science,More Science,Addiction Recovery,Pharmaceuticals,Neuroscience,Psychiatry,Psychology,Thought Cognition,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Ethics,Infectious Diseases,Medical Technology, Source Type: news

Strong Oral Carcinogen Identified In Smokeless Tobacco
Scientists have reported identification of the first substance in smokeless tobacco that is a strong oral carcinogen - a health risk for the 9 million users of chewing tobacco, snuff and related products in the U.S. - and called upon the federal government to regulate or ban the substance. The researchers reported here at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 23, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

Upstate offers new treatment for painkiller addiction after back surgery
Neuropsychoanalytic treatment seeks to restore individual's natural ability to deal with pain, and break addiction to painkillers.
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - August 23, 2012 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Alcohol and Drugs in the News
Source: About.com Alcoholism - August 23, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

RPS and ITV investigate the danger of using counterfeit medicines
Source: RPS Area: News Tests commissioned by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) on samples of Prozac and codeine obtained by ITV News have found that the amount of the active drugs was lower than it was indicated on the packaging of medicines and furthermore, both medications contained substances harmful to health and even highly addictive such as metamphetamine (crystal meth) and flunitrazepam (Rohypnol). demonstrated that medicines used to treat depression and mental illnesses purchased from illicit websites can be a real danger to patients. The research was documented by ITV News Investigation. The RPS w...
Source: NeLM - News - August 23, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

N.C. Program Slashes Opioid Overdoses
(MedPage Today) -- A drug overdose prevention program in North Carolina cut overdose deaths by 69% in 2 years while prescribing levels for addictive painkillers remained flat, community leaders there said.
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - August 22, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

More sophisticated wiring, not just a bigger brain, helped humans evolve beyond chimps
Human and chimp brains look anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But where does the chimp brain end and the human brain begin? A new UCLA study pinpoints uniquely human patterns of gene activity in the brain that could shed light on how we evolved differently than our closest relative. The identification of these genes could improve understanding of human brain diseases like autism and schizophrenia, as well as learning disorders and addictions. The research appears Aug. 22 in the advance online edition of the journal Neuron. "Scientists usually ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 22, 2012 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Why Can't He Stay Sober?
Does the journey to recovery have to include hitting a bottom? read more
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 22, 2012 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T. Tags: Addiction Sex addictive behaviors bottoms destructive behaviors do the right thing family and friends hitting bottom intention Job motivation nbsp rock bottom sex addict sex addiction sex addiction help sex addicts sex sh Source Type: news

Survey: 17% of students abuse substances at school
About 17% of American high school students drink, smoke or use drugs during the school day, a new survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University says. It's no surprise to their classmates, either: 86% say they kn...
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 22, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

More sophisticated wiring, not just bigger brain, helped humans evolve beyond chimps, geneticists find
Human and chimp brains look anatomically similar because both evolved from the same ancestor millions of years ago. But where does the chimp brain end and the human brain begin? A new study pinpoints uniquely human patterns of gene activity in the brain that could shed light on how we evolved differently than our closest relative. These genes' identification could improve understanding of human brain diseases like autism and schizophrenia, as well as learning disorders and addictions.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 22, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

You Know That Sex Sells—Do You Know Why?
You may not realize this, but activation in the nucleus accumbens will make you take more financial risks. This is the part our brain that is "turned on" when we experience positive emotions. So, how do we know that this region of the brain will make you take more financial risks? read more
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 22, 2012 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Ryan T. Howell, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Neuroscience Sex attractive attractive models brain brain regions brands casino owners casinos emotional states erotic erotic positions financial choices financial decision financial investmen Source Type: news