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Cannabis May Cause Schizophrenia-Like Brain Changes
Researchers looking at the effects of cannabis on the brain have made some interesting discoveries. The effect is similar to some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, say Dr. Matthew Jones and colleagues at Bristol University, UK. They predicted that the detrimental impact of cannabis on memory and cognition might be caused by brain networks being “disorchestrated.” Normally, specific parts of the brain are tuned into each another at certain frequencies, say the researchers. This rhythmic activity produces brain waves and allows information to be processed in order for us to react. The team used the analogy of an ...
Source: Psych Central - July 10, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jane Collingwood Tags: Addictions Atypical Antipsychotics Disorders General Medications Schizophrenia Substance Abuse Treatment Brain Activity Brain Areas Brain Changes Brain Regions Brain Tune Brain Waves Brass Woodwind Bristol University Cannab Source Type: news

What Does the Desert Do to Human Minds?
A desert hermit dug his own grave, then shot a cop. What was it about life in the hot American vastness that led up to this? read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 10, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Anneli Rufus Tags: Addiction Depression Law and Crime Media awake at night clime cloudburst death song deputy sheriff escape hatch frogs honest place last names mirage mojave desert nourishment page turner passions psychology place roll Source Type: news

Symptoms of Teen Substance Abuse
Addiction is defined as the continued use of a mood-altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors. Some people can use alcohol or drugs and never become addicted or suffer negative consequences. Others struggle greatly with addiction. Several factors play a part in addiction, including family and social environment, overall mental health, genetics, and family history of addiction. It often is not the case that those with a family history choose not to abuse alcohol or drugs. Many individuals exposed to substance abuse and addiction grow up to be addicts,...
Source: Psych Central - July 10, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Donna M. White, LMHC, CACP Tags: Addictions Alcoholism Children and Teens Disorders Family General Parenting Students Substance Abuse Treatment Amphetamines Coping Skills Drug Of Choice Drug Use Health Genetics History Of Trauma Including Family Increase Source Type: news

News From The Annals Of Family Medicine: July/August 2012
Opioid Use and Misuse for Chronic Pain: What is the Appropriate Role of Prescription Painkillers? A cluster of articles in the July/August issue of Annals looks at opioid use for the management of chronic pain, including the escalating levels of misuse, overdose and addiction associated with opioid pain relievers...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 10, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pain / Anesthetics Source Type: news

Federal Law Bans Synthetic Drugs
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 10, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Wine Intolerance May Result In Allergy-Like Symptoms
According to German researchers, approximately 7% of people have an intolerance to wine. The study, published in Deutsches Ã�rzteblatt International, was conducted in order to assess the prevalence of wine intolerance among adults. In 2010, the researchers, led by Peter Wigand, randomly selected 4,000 people aged 20 to 70 to fill out a survey about their alcohol intake and whether they suffered any allergy-like symptoms after consuming wine. Of the 948 people who completed the survey, the team found that 8.9% of women reported wine intolerance versus 5.2% of men...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 9, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

An Introduction: Where Science Meets the Steps
Diverse and often conflicting perspectives have created confusion about the most effective ways to treat addiction—a disease that affects more people now than any other time in history. read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 9, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: David Sack, M.D. Tags: Addiction 12 steps addiction treatment adversaries allies biological model brain confusion disease model insight lifelong recovery models new paradigm perspectives Science time in history treatment outcomes turning point Source Type: news

July/August 2012 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
(American Academy of Family Physicians) This tip sheet offers synopses of original research and editorial published in the July/August 2012 issue of Annals. A cluster of articles in the July/August issue looks at opioid use for the management of chronic pain, including the escalating levels of misuse, overdose and addiction associated with opioid pain relievers.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 9, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

The Workaholic Breakdown Syndrome: Loss of Feeling
Only by bringing into conscious awareness the escalating fears of failure, boredom, laziness, discovery, self-discovery, and paranoia will workaholics begin to recognize that something is seriously wrong. read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - July 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Barbara Killinger, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety and a distant observer? Are you feeling numb and flat arrogance boredom bouts chronic fatigue conscious awareness downward spiral excessive amounts fragile ego high anxiety intuition obsession obsessive thou Source Type: news

The Workaholic Breakdown Syndrome - Loss of Feeling
The Loss of Feelingread more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 8, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Barbara Killinger, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety and a distant observer? Are you feeling numb and flat arrogance boredom bouts chronic fatigue conscious awareness downward spiral excessive amounts fragile ego high anxiety intuition obsession obsessive thou Source Type: news

Reefer Madness?
Reefer Madness is a joke to the pro-legalization marijuana movement -- an extreme approach to deterring weed smoking through fear, that now seems ridiculous. But was there a grain of truth to this cautionary tale? ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Addictions - July 8, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Jaie's Story: Legacy of Alcoholism
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 7, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Doctors: Tanning Can Become Addiction Like Smoking Or Alcoholism
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - July 6, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: stevesaleeba Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Tanning tanorexia tanorexic Source Type: news

Teen Drug And Alcohol Abuse Reports By SAMHSA
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released two new reports regarding substance abuse. The first report suggests that 12 to 17 year-olds are far more likely to begin abusing most substances in the summer compared with any other time of the year. The second report reveals that the average yearly rate of drug-related emergency department (ED) visits decreased from 18.2% between 2005 to 2008 to 6.1% in 2009 and 2010...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 6, 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 - July 6, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Recovery from Boredom
The biggest open secret about being an addict is that treatment and early recovery is invariably experienced as a choice between dying from boredom and dying from alcohol or drugs. Many addicts repeatedly vote for the latter. read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 5, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: McWelling Todman, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Happiness Psychiatry Self-Help activity directors alcohol alcohol and drugs anhedonia assumption average person avoidance boredom clinicians cravings depression drug addiction drug and alcohol drug and alcohol a Source Type: news

Alcohol and Drugs in the News
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 5, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Addicts Misusing Drug Treatments
In the latest sign of how entrenched the nation's epidemic of painkiller misuse has become, people are abusing treatments meant to cure their addiction.
Source: WSJ.com: Health - July 5, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: FREE Source Type: news

Refreshing Summer Drinks, Non-Alcoholic, Of Course!
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 4, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

DSM-5 Continues To Ignore Critics
The petition to reform DSM-5 speaks with the powerful voice of more than fifty mental health associations. Perhaps more important to APA's publishing ambitions and budgetary needs, it represents a significant percentage of the potential customers who eventually will have to decide whether or not DSM-5 is worth buying and using.read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - July 4, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Allen J. Frances, M.D. Tags: Aging Anxiety Depression Psychiatry American Psychiatric Association attention deficit hyperactivity attention deficit hyperactivity disorder behavioral addictions binge eating disorder cognitive disorder disorder attention deficit hyp Source Type: news

A DUI Conviction Can Get Expensive
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 3, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Loudoun County wellness calendar, July 5-12
Alzheimer’s support Thursday, 10-11 a.m. Spring Arbor Assisted Living, 237 Fairview St. NW, Leesburg. 540-338-6520. Nar-Anon family group For friends of those recovering from addictions. Thursdays at 7 p.m. Leesburg Presbyterian Church, 207 W. Market St. www.nar-anon.org. Read full article >>
Source: Wash Post Health - July 3, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Episcopal Church nursing home Source Type: news

Synthetic Drugs
Before writing this blog, I decided to see just how easy it was to locate synthetic drugs. I took off on what I thought could be an adventure... Little did I know that my "adventure" would end within five minutes of walking into the store. read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 3, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, M.S., L.P.C. Tags: Addiction Child Development Parenting attractive array bath salts beach apparel chewing gum clue number control act convenience store display case drug addictions drugs emergency rooms glass pipes obama pipes one hitters Source Type: news

No Alcohol Level Safe for Driving
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 2, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

GlaxoSmithKline To Pay $3 Billion In Health Care Fraud Settlement
WASHINGTON (AP) — GlaxoSmithKline LLC will pay $3 billion and plead guilty to promoting two popular drugs for unapproved uses and to failing to disclose important safety information on a third in the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Monday. WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Carl Stevens reports. Download: stevens-glaxo-settlement-wrap-2.mp3 Accompanying the criminal case was a civil settlement in which the government said the company’s improper marketing included providing doctors with expensive resort vacations, European hu...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - July 2, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: KC Downey Tags: News Watch Listen Health Heard On WBZ NewsRadio 1030 GlaxoSmithKline Medical Fraud Health Care Fraud Source Type: news

Technology: Can You Disconnect from the ‘Matrix’?
Are capable of disconnecting from your technology?read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 2, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Jim Taylor, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Media alcohol drugs body of evidence earbud exercise habit headphones Internet master of technology moment of the day pc laptop premise professional lives simple test smartphone suggestion technology addict te Source Type: news

Drugs in the workplace 'widespread'
Discussion about the strengths or weaknesses of test results was noticeably absent from the report. The report highlights the following results: During 2011, 3.23% of all those analysed tested positive for drugs from samples taken in the workplace. It is not clear how many people were tested in 2011 because only the total number of tests for 2007 to 2011 (1,668,330) was reported. The report’s authors estimated, by extrapolating their figure to the 29.23 million people employed in the UK, that 940,000 people would have drugs in their system “right now”. This equated to approximately one in 30 UK employees having...
Source: NHS News Feed - July 2, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Source Type: news

The Business of Manipulation
Ian Bogost, the famed game creator and professor, calls the wave of habit-forming technologies the "cigarette of this century" and warns of equally addictive and potentially destructive side-effects.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 1, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Nir Eyal Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Addictive products behavior design car dealership cigarette consumer web destructive side effects food rationing game creator habit mass manipulation moral compass morality nbsp notifications Source Type: news

Achieving Work-Life Balance When Workaholism is the Norm
Sometimes it seems that we are all expected to be workaholics these days. I just read an article yesterday, about how summer vacations are disappearing for young people who want to "reach ahead" and are attending summer school, not to make up for failed grades, but to take next year's classes ahead of time. And a few months ago, a client announced that "having a job is the new raise." So when does overwork cross from being a matter of survival in today's cut-throat job market, to being an addiction? ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Addictions - July 1, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Moderate Drinking Superior To Abstaining In Quality Of Life Scores
Middle-aged people who consume alcohol in moderation appear to have better quality of life than those who abstain, say researchers. The study, which involved 5,404 Canadians aged 50+, found that those who drank in moderation - no more than 14 drinks per week with no more than three a day for women and four a day for men - had higher quality of life than those who abstained from alcohol. The researchers assessed health quality of life with the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3.) During the follow-up period, the researchers found that 31.4% of participants reduced their alcohol intake...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 29, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

New Drugs for Old Pains
Speeding the development and availability of drugs that treat serious diseases are in everyone's interest, especially when the drugs are the first available treatment or have advantages over existing treatments.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - June 29, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Dr. Mark Borigini, M.D. Tags: Addiction Health Neuroscience Self-Help AIDS amitriptyline cancer chronic pain diseases fast track FDA food and drug food and drug administration food and drug administration fda health care professionals health professionals Source Type: news

Addicted to Health Care
Americans' addiction to health care of all sorts—including every kind of life problem—is driving the country into the ground economically, polluting the political atmosphere, and creating an unhealthy population. But we can't quit it!read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - June 29, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Stanton Peele Tags: Addiction Health Politics american health care american health care system chasm controlling costs dead fish emotional illness health care advocates health care costs health care coverage health care debate health disease lock Source Type: news

Adenosinergic System: Therapeutics for Drug AddictionAdenosinergic System: Therapeutics for Drug Addiction
An elucidation of the role of the neurotransmitter adenosine and the adenosinergic system in drug addiction and withdrawal syndromes may lead to new therapeutics based on the adenosinergic concept. Future Neurology
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 29, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Journal Article Source Type: news

Experts Say Harm Reduction Is Best Goal For Emerging Drug Policies
In the Americas, the toll of illegal drugs has grown dramatically in recent years, but with different impacts on producing, consuming, and transit countries...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 29, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

Novel Antibody Vaccine Blocks Addictive Nicotine Chemicals From Reaching The Brain
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed and successfully tested in mice an innovative vaccine to treat nicotine addiction. In the journal Science Translational Medicine, the scientists describe how a single dose of their novel vaccine protects mice, over their lifetime, against nicotine addiction. The vaccine is designed to use the animal's liver as a factory to continuously produce antibodies that gobble up nicotine the moment it enters the bloodstream, preventing the chemical from reaching the brain and even the heart...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 29, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Smoking / Quit Smoking Source Type: news

Have surgery, lose weight, and start drinking
If you’ve been struggling with your weight have you thought about bariatric surgery? You may have seen billboards or heard radio ads promoting surgery or heard celebrities like Roseanne Barr, Star Jones, and Al Roker talk about their weight loss surgeries. Well over 200 thousand of these procedures were performed last year.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - June 29, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Edward Abramson, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Diet Eating Disorders Health alcohol abuse alcohol addiction alcohol consumption alcohol problems alcoholism bariatric surgery billboards bypass surgery dieting emotional eating excess weight food addiction gastri Source Type: news

Babies being born addicted to painkillers
BUFFALO, N.Y., June 28 (UPI) -- Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said he will propose legislation to address an epidemic of babies being born addicted to prescription pain killers.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - June 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Is opiate pain medication safe for addicts? Part II
When considering opiate pain medication among addicts, one of the important questions is: Do they work?read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - June 28, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Health Integrative Medicine Self-Help abuse amphetamines benzodiazepines chronic pain cocaine drug abuse drug use heroin medical procedures medication medication therapy medications for chronic pain methamphetamin Source Type: news

40 Million Americans Addicted to Cigarettes, Alcohol or Drugs
About 16 percent of Americans aged 12 and older are hooked
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Health News - June 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Dependence, Preventive Medicine, News, Source Type: news

How Lack of Insight Sustains Addiction
Over 80% of people don’t seek treatment for addiction. This does not mean they don’t have a problem; more likely, they don’t recognize its severity. The lack of recognition may result from an underlying neural dysfunction.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - June 28, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Joshua Gowin, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Neuroscience bmw 318 car mechanic cheese food cheetos constant headache costly repair crumbs current lab drug dependence emotional memories empty stomach extreme sports food corn good car hunk insula new ways Source Type: news

Internet Porn: Its Problems, Perils, and Pitfalls
In my 12-part series on human sexual desire, I’ve discussed our richly varied carnal appetites and how the porn industry seeks to gratify them. In this final post, I’ll offer a perspective on what, practically, all this means for porn consumers—and those near them. Overall, the picture is somewhat alarming.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - June 28, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Neuroscience Relationships Sex addictive potential alienated sex appetites arousal closeness controversial subject daily basis desensitization disconnected dopamine erectile dysfunction erotic illusions erotic union Source Type: news

Massive Drug Dependence Access To Treatment Gap Worldwide, Says WHO
New information on the resources dealing with the prevention and treatment of drug and alcohol abuse is now available for 147 countries in a new World Health Organization (WHO) information system. In the past, drug dependence had been discriminated and not seen as a major health concern, subsequently the majority of people did not get the treatment they needed. When somebody is drug dependent it means that he or she has a compulsive need to use the drug, which can be either an illegal or prescription medication, otherwise they feel that they cannot function properly...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

Vaccine to help smokers quit is a long way off
Conclusion This research has shown that gene transfer therapy can interfere with the way nicotine goes from the blood to the brain. This animal study does not, however, tell us whether an injection can stop people from taking up smoking or help them to quit. Interpreting the results of animal research is difficult and generalising the findings to humans should be done cautiously. The researchers want to do more animal studies that would attempt to mimic nicotine addiction in humans. They said that the mice used in the current study had not been exposed to nicotine previously, and they are planning further studies in which ...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Medication Source Type: news

New Smoking Vaccine Using Gene Therapy Being Developed
By using gene therapy to create a novel antibody that gobbles up nicotine before it reaches the brain in mice, scientists say they may have found a potential smoking vaccine against cigarette addiction. However, there is still a long way to go before the new therapy can be tested in humans. In a study reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine this week, Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City show how a single dose of the vaccine protected mice, over their lifetime, against nicotine addiction...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Smoking / Quit Smoking Source Type: news

The Best Way To Treat Problem Alcohol Use; Scientists Weigh The Evidence
Scientists from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have released comprehensive reviews of the most effective treatments for alcohol dependence, one of the most prevalent addictions in Canada. Published in the latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, the reviews explore the most effective treatments and interventions for problem alcohol use and concurrent disorders. Almost 40 per cent of people with an alcohol use problem also have a concurrent mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, mood or anxiety disorders...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 28, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

40 Million Americans Addicted to Cigarettes, Alcohol, or Drugs
About 40 million Americans are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol or drugs, new research finds.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - June 28, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Alcohol and Drugs in the News
Source: About.com Alcoholism - June 28, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Doctors often ignore addiction in patients
NEW YORK, June 27 (UPI) -- Forty million U.S. teens and adults are addicted to nicotine, alcohol or other drugs, but few get treatment, a non-profit group found.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - June 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Vaccine stops nicotine from reaching the brain, may prevent addiction
Researcher likens vaccine's antibodies to "Pacmen that like nicotine and just gobble it up" before it reaches the brain, preventing addictive sensation
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - June 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Vaccine May Block the Effect of Nicotine
Scientists say they've developed an experimental vaccine that may one day protect people against the addictive effects of nicotine.
Source: WebMD Health - June 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news