Alcohol has a very high calorie content. Experts, therefore, have long been confused as to why people often eat more after having consumed alcoholic drinks. New scientific tests show spikes in electrical activity in the brains of mice when...
Introducing children to alcohol by way of their parents allowing them sips or tasters of their own drinks is typically viewed as the presiding method used in European countries.
Published in the journal Psychological Medicine, a new...
Health researchers worldwide have provided new evidence suggesting that alcohol advertising is often aggressive, reaching children, and is linked with youth drinking.
The Australian organisation, the National Alliance for Action on Alcohol...
The New York Times article traces the impact of America's opioid epidemic on Americans of all backgrounds throughout the country. Photos depict the human face of a tragedy that is taking too many lives.
تحقیقات جدید ارتباط قابل توجهی بین خطر خودکشی و مصرف همزمان کوکائین و الکل پیدا کرده است.
این مطالعه عادات مصرف مواد مخدر از 874 شرکت کننده در بیمارستان برای نمایش تمایل به خودکشی، از افکار خودکشی گرفته تا تلاش برای گرفتن جان خود را مورد...
The largest seizure of cocaine has been documented with the arrest of 15 men. The drugs transited through the South Pacific and followed a seizure in French Polynesia. This bust is indicative of a growing concern of increased drug...
A new European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Best Practice report will be published in early 2017. It will take an in-depth look at substance use prevention in Europe.
The report's stated aim is "not to rate...
لس آنجلس تایمز به بررسی گسترش شرکت های دارویی در سطح بین المللی که در تلاش برای فروش اکسی کونتین بسیار اعتیاد آور، داروهای مخدر، و با استفاده از سرگرم کننده و چهره های ورزشی برای ورود به بازارهای سراسر جهان است.
En un acto que se llevó a cabo en la sede de la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción”, el Rector de la citada Universidad y el Ministro de la SENAD dieron lugar a la firma de un convenio de...
A news item currently trending in the French press concerns the alarming increase in consumption amongst French teenagers of a drink most commonly known as ‘purple drank’, but also referred to as ‘lean’ or ‘sizzurp’. Le Monde first reported...
استه آرتیکولو دستاکا لا کولابوراسیون انتر ال گوبیرنو آرجنتینو y estadounidense en relación a reducción de la demanda. آمبوس استان تراباجاندو کان اون انفوک ان نینوس، به ویژه در prevención de primer uso y tratamiento para pre-adolescentes...
The latest Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Survey (2015) reports a decrease in the number of smokers nationwide.
Click here to view the full set of results (available in both English and French).
This year's Global Drug Survey (GDS) was launched last week. The GDS is the world's largest online survey about drugs and drug use. Last year's survey was completed by over 100,000 respondents. GDS is an independent drug use data mapping...
Analyses have found a direct link between the number of cigarettes smoked during one's lifetime and the number of mutations in tumour DNA. Commenting on these findings, Prof. Sir Mike Stratton from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute notes...
In recent years Mexico has seen a spike in drug use among teenagers. A new study analysed drug use among Mexican high school students over the past two decades. The study found that the number of young people who had tried drugs doubled...
Within as little as twenty minutes after your last cigarette your body begins to feel the effects of quitting. Health benefits from stopping smoking include, amongst other things, a decrease in heart rate and blood pressure, better...
اخیراً شانزده نفر پس از مصرف یک داروی مصنوعی جدید معروف به فلاکا در ساحل طلای استرالیا بستری شدند. گفته می شود که یکی از کسانی که بیمار شده است در وضعیت وخیمی قرار دارد. فلاکا به شکل یک ماده کریستال مانند سفید/صورتی می گیرد که می تواند...
