After medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, cannabis-related poison control calls involving the commonwealth’s children and teenagers doubled, according to
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After reviewing tens of millions of insurance claims for the country’s 49 most popular brand-name prescription drugs, a team from
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Synthetic psychoactive drugs have become a serious public health threat in recent years. This is particularly true of the fentanyls,
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A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could change the way scientists look at one
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Among more than 72,000 deaths in the U.S. last year, fentanyl — a highly potent prescription opioid often used to
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A study in cocaine-addicted rats reports long-lasting increases in the number of neurons that produce orexin — a chemical messenger
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With the support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have been working
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Cocaine relapse was significantly reduced in a preclinical model when brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) was applied to the nucleus accumbens
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Long-term use of either cannabis or cannabis-based drugs impairs memory say researchers. The study has implications for both recreational users
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Childhood adversity permanently alters the peripheral and central immune systems, increasing the sensitivity of the body’s immune response to cocaine,
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