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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A new study reveals that many people with cancer use marijuana, and rates of use in the U.S. have increased
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Alcohol and other substance-use problems take enormous psychological and societal tolls on millions of Americans. Now a study from the
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Patients undergoing long-term treatment with steroids may suffer from metabolic side effects. Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the
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In the wake of cannabis legalization, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
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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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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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