Posted on Nov 3, 2011 in mindfulness | Comments Off Buffer One of the first steps in dealing with addiction is to discover the emotional cause of it, whether it is fear, depression, anxiety, or pessimism. Many times these unwholesome thoughts and beliefs come from what I call the Òwanting mind.Ó In wanting mind, we […]
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011 in Alcohol, Families | Comments Off Buffer Youths who receive more than £10 (less than US$20) a week in spending money and who buy alcohol for themselves are more likely to become Ôproblem drinkersÕ, a survey of over 10,000 teenagers reveals. Mark A Bellis from Liverpool John Moores University and
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011 in Meth | Comments Off Buffer Scientists are reporting development of three promising formulations that could be used in a vaccine to treat methamphetamine addiction Ñ one of the most serious drug abuse problems in the U.S. The report appears in theÊJournal of the American Chemical Society. In the paper,
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011 in Depression | Comments Off Buffer Problems like anxiety and depression are caused by psychological and environmental factors, and are known to be influenced by genetic proclivities. However, it is still not clear how each factor affects the brainÕs functions to induce anxious and depressive symptoms. To shed light on
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Posted on Nov 5, 2011 in Addiction | Comments Off Buffer Image via Wikipedia A multinational research team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health has found that a genetic variant of a brain receptor molecule may contribute to violently impulsive behavior when people who carry it are under the influence of alcohol.
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Posted on Nov 5, 2011 in Adolescence | Comments Off Buffer Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health studied the drinking habits of 9,833 15- to 16-year-olds in the North West of England, finding that excessively low cost alcohol products and illicit purchase are strongly related to harmful underage drinking. Ê Mark
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Posted on Nov 5, 2011 in Addiction | Comments Off Buffer No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology this week, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains exposed to the painkiller Oxycontin can sustain lifelong and permanent changes in their
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Posted on Nov 6, 2011 in Alcoholism, Families, The Brain And Addiction | Comments Off Buffer Image via Wikipedia In a systematic review of current evidence published in this weekÕsÊPLoS Medicine, the authorsÑJim McCambridge from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, and colleaguesÑconclude that there is enough evidence to recommend that
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 in Addiction | Comments Off Buffer LONDON Ð Nine major pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pool data on with academic institutions in an effort to improve ways of developing of new medicines to treat psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. The collaboration, which involves Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Roche among
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