Addiction

How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?

Scientific article
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The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction. New research presented...

Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics with Disulfiram

Scientific article
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Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the...

Can Medical Marijuana Promote Illegal Use?

Scientific article
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Illegal marijuana use and reported cases of addiction have increased more rapidly in US states that passed laws to introduce medical marijuana compared to those that did not. This is according to new research to be published in the journal...