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C. Everett Koop, the U.S. surgeon general who was instrumental in promoting childhood sex education for AIDS prevention, led anti-smoking campaigns and efforts to improve diet and nutrition, has died. He was 96.
Pregnant women who are struggling to kick the butt have a new ray of hope with a website that would support them, instead of inducing feelings of guilt or shame. PREGNETS (Prevention of Gestational and Neonatal Exposure to Tobacco Smoke) of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto focuses on building a community of support among women through online discussion board, reports CTV news. The site, along with offering various self-help materials also offers tips on having a healthy pregnancy. According to the press release, around one in 10 Canadian women smoke while pregnant and that too, is believed to be an understatement because many a women do not admit to smoking while pregnant.
Women are often asked to be more careful and aware of the alcohol intake. And there is more to it. Scientists from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System have demonstrated how the volume of white matter in the brain gets affected differently in men and women after long-term alcohol abuse.
Teenagers are turning to different kinds of addiction these days and it is very difficult for parents to keep a track of their habits. Heavy drinking is one of the earliest known addictions and a new research shows that heavy drinking affects teenagers' developing brains. The latest study also claims to predict teens at risk of becoming problem drinkers based on their brain mapping. Heavy drinking included four or more drinks on an occasion for females and five or more drinks for males.
Doctors apparently have a hard time spotting drinking problems unless a patient turns up drunk, a study reveals. The study says that if patients are not already intoxicated, GPs on an average can only detect 40 percent of cases of problem drinkers. For the study, an overview of 39 previous studies was conducted by Leicester University researchers, which involved 20,000 patients.
A latest study has revealed that majority of adolescents in substance abuse use marijuana from a prescribed medical marijuana user. The study found that diverted medical marijuana use (when it is actually prescribed for someone else) among adolescents is very common. For the study, the participants from substance abuse treatment programs in the Denver metropolitan area were quizzed on their medical marijuana use. It was found that 121 of 164 adolescents (73.8%) of the adolescents reported divert...
A study reveals that teenagers addicted to smoking have much lower threshold than the common notion.
According to a latest study, alcohol is the social icebreaker. Researchers have found that moderate amount of alcohol when consumed in social groups, helps people boost their emotions and enhances social bonding. Also, it can reduce negative emotions or at least reduce the display of it by being silent in a group.
Alcohol consumption is the third largest reason for the factor responsible for onset of various diseases and in spite of that, there are only three FDA approved drugs available to treat Alcohol dependence.
New research is out that has concluded that bath salts have a similar effect in the brain as cocaine and carry the same risk for abuse and addiction.
According to a latest European study, people who quit smoking could gain weight, an average of about 8 to 11 pounds the first year.
After a federal review legal drive against pain killer Oxycodone makers is being implemented
Facebook has made its website more user friendly with the addition of a new feature for married same-sex couples. The popular social networking site has added a new icon for people married to the same sex, instead of using the traditional male-female marriage icons
Good news for those who have made a million attempts to kick the butt, but all in vain.
For a long time, scientists have believed that food could become a "drug of abuse" like cocaine. The belief possibly stemmed from the fact that the desire to eat and activity such as drug taking was associated with the brain's "reward" circuitry. But a new research has found that in reality, the brain works opposite of the popular belief. A study shows that people who are not interested in food may be more likely to take cocaine. "Using genetic approaches, we found that increas...
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