Cocaine Information
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Cocaine is one of the most commonly abused stimulant drugs.
What is Cocaine?
Cocaine is classed by the medical preofession as a stimulant drug. However it is also known on t ...
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Cocaine Advice
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Cocaine Detox
While at the present time, no proven pharmacologic therapy for cocaine addiction exists, ...
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Information on Cocaine Detox & TreatmentCocaine is a class of drugs know as a stimulant (similar to amphetamine).WHat happens when you stop taking cocaine?Abrupt cessa ...
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Cocaine Treatment
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Cocaine use is highly addictive. Cocaine is one of the most misused drugs. Cocaine addiction can occur relatively quickly and, like all drug addiction, cocaine addiction is serious. Cocaine is ille ...
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People have always assumed a link between addiction and crime. It is relatively understandable why people jump to this conclusion, in the case of illicit drugs, the mere action is in fact a c ...
Article published on 02/02/2012 by Addiction Advisor
The trends in drug use have varied over recent years, and can be reflective of a number of things including culture, cost and accessibility of different types of drugs. The DrugScope Street Drug Tr ...
Article published on 25/01/2012 by Addiction Advisor
Brief motivational interventions refer to discussions with alcohol and substance users which aim to bring about positive changes in their substance use related behaviour. Bernstein et al. (2005) no ...
Article published on 06/12/2011 by Addiction Advisor
Drug Treatment Centres
According to the National Treatment Agency (NTA) for Substance Misuse, approximately 3.8 million people throughout England and Wales use at least one illegal ...
Article published on 04/08/2011 by Addiction Advisor
How to help a drug addict
One of the main issues relating to drug dependence is the possibility of relapse. Alongside the therapeutic and psychological programmes addressing this r ...
Article published on 04/08/2011 by Addiction Advisor
Cocaine addiction
The Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study (Crits-Christoph et al. 1997) was a large study which investigated different types of drug counselling to ascertain the most su ...
Article published on 14/07/2011 by Addiction Advisor
DRUG REHAB CENTRES
Generally there is a distinct lack of research into drug rehabilitation centres in the UK and it is assumed that this is because there is a lack of research interest an ...
Article published on 14/07/2011 by Addiction Advisor
Hope for Treatment of Cocaine Addiction: Block Memories
Two separate discoveries by US researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) offer potential for development of ...
Article published on 24/03/2011 by Addiction Advisor
Region of the brain activated during drugs relapse
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Article published on 18/03/2011 by Addiction Advisor
A new hard-hitting £1m TV and online FRANK advertising campaign which shows the dangers of cocaine has been unveiled by the government.The campaign is centred on Pablo the drug mule dog', ...
Article published on 19/01/2009 by Addiction Advisor
About 11% of the 4 million babies born in the US each year have been exposed to alcohol or illicit drugs in the womb, according to a June 2006 report by the National Center on Substance Abuse and Chil ...
Article published on 13/01/2009 by Addiction Advisor
DrugScope recently welcomed the publication of new figures from the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) on the numbers of young people who have received specialist support for drug an ...
Article published on 04/01/2009 by Addiction Advisor
An investigation by DrugScope's Druglink magazine has revealed concerning trends in the use of the Class C drug ketamine, with users taking higher doses of the drug and more people injecting the subst ...
Article published on 03/01/2009 by Addiction Advisor
Since 1975 the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey has measured drug, alcohol, and cigarette use and related attitudes among adolescent students nationwide. Survey participants report their drug use be ...
Article published on 27/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
An independent review investigating the effectiveness of a publicly funded graphic anti-methamphetamine advertising campaign has found that the campaign has been associated with many negative outcomes ...
Article published on 24/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Rewarding and stressful signals don't seem to have much in common. But researchers studying diseases ranging from drug addiction to anxiety disorders are finding that the brain's reward and stress sig ...
Article published on 21/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
The latest Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) report - drawn from a sample of hospital emergency departments across the Nation - indicates that more than 1.7 million visits for treatment were associate ...
Article published on 19/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
In a new report published online in the January issue of Addiction, researchers question whether current licensing policies have contributed to a rise in the phenomenon of "pre-drinking" amongst young ...
Article published on 18/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A new UK Drugs Policy Commission has been published - Working towards recovery, Getting problem drug users into jobs. The review reaches a wide range of conclusions on getting problem drug users 'fit ...
Article published on 10/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A review and research findings published today by the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) concludes that Government efforts to get drug users into jobs through welfare reform proposals announced recentl ...
Article published on 08/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Environmental conditions play a major role in treating drug addiction and in preventing relapses, according to new research. For the first time, researchers from the Institut de physiologie et biologi ...
Article published on 30/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A new study at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory suggests that vigabatrin (a.k.a. gamma vinyl-GABA, or GVG) blocks drug-seeking behaviour in animals previously train ...
Article published on 29/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
The study was published in an online Early Edition issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the week of November 24. Scripps Florida is a division of The Scripps Research Institut ...
Article published on 27/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Improving outcomes for service users with complex needs is top of the agenda for a new partnership of charities working around social exclusion. Homeless Link, Clinks, DrugScope and Mind a ...
Article published on 25/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale University have been awarded almost $10 million to study the many ways cocaine use during pregnancy can negatively affect inte ...
Article published on 21/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Concateno plc, Europe's largest provider of drug and alcohol testing programmes, and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) have recently announced an innovative handheld drugs-of-abuse detecti ...
Article published on 16/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Adolescents addicted to opioids who received continuing treatment with the combination medication buprenorphine-naloxone had lower rates of testing positive or reporting use of opioids compared to you ...
Article published on 14/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
When given a choice between viewing pictures of cocaine and a variety of other images, cocaine addicted individuals, as compared to healthy, non-addicted research subjects, show a clear preference ...
Article published on 07/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
New research findings suggest that structural abnormalities in the brains of cocaine addicts are related in part to drug use and in part to a predisposition toward addiction. The research, published b ...
Article published on 02/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Using positron emission tomography (PET) to track tracer doses of methamphetamine in humans' brains, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory find that the ad ...
Article published on 31/10/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Figures published today by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) show that more than 202,000 people were recorded in drug treatment for 2007/08, which over-achieves the target set b ...
Article published on 29/10/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A study in the Oct. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that adolescent insomnia symptoms are associated with depression, suicide ideation and attempts, and the use of alcohol, cannabis and other drugs ...
Article published on 29/10/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Chemists are reporting development of what they term the most powerful substance ever discovered for eliminating cocaine from the body, an advance that could lead to the world's first effective medici ...
Article published on 24/09/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Rats that voluntarily use cocaine show a persistent cellular memory in the brain's reward centre even after several months of abstinence from the drug, while their involuntary counterparts had no such ...
Article published on 29/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
"Erasing" drug-associated memories may prevent recovering drug abusers from relapsing, researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered. The team, led by Professor Barry Everitt, ...
Article published on 17/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
The persistent nature of addiction is its most devastating feature. Understanding the mechanism underlying this phenomenon is the key for designing efficient therapy. Two separate studies published by ...
Article published on 12/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Addictions to medicines and drugs are thought to develop over a relatively long period of time. The process involves both structural and functional changes in brain nerve cells that are still poorly u ...
Article published on 10/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
The Treatment Outcomes Profile (TOP) - the tool used for monitoring the effectiveness of substance misuse treatment in England - has been assessed by peer-review as fit for purpose, and is published i ...
Article published on 09/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
New research has uncovered a fundamental cellular mechanism that may drive pathological drug-seeking behaviour. The study, published by Cell Press in the July 31 issue of the journal Neuron, examines ...
Article published on 09/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Vigabatrin, a medication proposed as a potential treatment for drug addiction by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, also leads to rapid weight loss and ...
Article published on 07/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A possible future way to prevent relapses into drug dependence has been discovered by researchers at Linkaping University and the German cancer research center DKFZ. The target is the dopamine-produci ...
Article published on 06/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Permanent drug seeking and relapse after renewed drug administration are typical behavioural patterns of addiction. Molecular changes at the connection points in the brain's reward centre are directly ...
Article published on 05/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
The mystery of why one person becomes hooked on alcohol, heroin, sex or gambling, and another remains free of addiction, lies deep in the brain and is largely determined by our genes according to one ...
Article published on 18/07/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Research by a Davidson College neuroscientist and students demonstrates that the benefits of regular exercise include a lowered tendency to become addicted to illegal drugs.The online vers ...
Article published on 15/07/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse early in their pregnancy can achieve the same health outcomes as pregnant women with no substance abuse, according to a study published online ...
Article published on 09/07/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Why are some individuals vulnerable to the transition from casual to compulsive drug use? Cambridge University scientists have concluded that there is a genetic vulnerability to addiction, which is be ...
Article published on 16/06/2008 by Addiction Advisor
New guidelines have been written which will assist nightclub staff in deciding whether to call ambulances for unwell clubbers. The proposed guidelines were co-written by medics, police off ...
Article published on 16/06/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Drug users can be taught to identify and quickly respond to overdoses of heroin or other opioids as effectively as medical experts, a Yale University study suggests.The study supports effo ...
Article published on 02/06/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A survey conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) research consortium found that the United States had among the highest lifetime rates of tobacco and alcohol use and led in the proportion of ...
Article published on 01/06/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Drug abusers who used a computer-assisted training program in addition to receiving traditional counselling stayed abstinent significantly longer than those who received counselling alone, a Yale Univ ...
Article published on 30/05/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston are studying a number of medications which could help addicts to recover from cocaine dependence. The researchers are looking at ways t ...
Article published on 24/05/2008 by Addiction Advisor
The first large-scale analysis of proteins in the brains of monkeys addicted to cocaine reveals new information on how long-term cocaine use changes the amount and activity of various proteins affecti ...
Article published on 03/05/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Subconscious cues 'can trigger drug cravings'Research has uncovered a link between exposure to images of drugs and substance cravings.In the study funded by the National Institute ...
Article published on 31/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth are nearly 200 per cent more likely to abuse substances than their heterosexual counterparts, according to a new US study.Researchers looked at 18 studi ...
Article published on 27/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
An American health agency has warned doctors to check younger patients who display symptoms of chest pain for cocaine use.In a publication in Circulation Journal, the American Heart Associat ...
Article published on 20/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
New research could enable scientists to better understand how to combat the emotional motivations of cocaine use.A study published this month in the journal Neuron reveals findings of experi ...
Article published on 13/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
US students are turning to prescription drugs for recreational use, leading to many being at risk of addiction, new figures have suggested.A study has revealed that around 20 per cent of stu ...
Article published on 07/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
New research indicates that a common heart drug could offer a solution to combating cocaine cravings.Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School looked a ...
Article published on 29/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A biological lack of willpower in the brain could hold the key to understanding why some cocaine users becoming addicted to the drug.Scientists from Trinity College Dublin claim they may hav ...
Article published on 27/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A part of the brain with a relationship to a range of emotions is at the centre of a study into addiction and mental illness. Published recently in the American Psychological Association's B ...
Article published on 23/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
Use of the popular recreational drug Ecstasy inflicts damage to the brain akin to a traumatic brain injury, researchers claim. Scientists from the University of Florida have found similariti ...
Article published on 23/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
New research has given hope for more treatment options for cocaine abuse.Scientists have discovered that rather than just affecting dopamine levels, known as the brain's "reward" chemical be ...
Article published on 20/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
A report has revealed police fears about a growing epidemic in the use of crystal meth in the UK.The leaked report written by police chiefs say the cyrstallised amphetamine drug is growing i ...
Article published on 19/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
New research could explain why individuals with mental illness often develop drug and alcohol addiction. ...
Article published on 04/12/2007 by Addiction Advisor
A study conducted by researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has found that the genes which play a role in illegal drug abuse are different to those which have an effect on nicotine ...
Article published on 07/11/2007 by Addiction Advisor
A study has found that high-risk teenagers who participate in peer-led substance abuse - including alcohol - prevention programmes reduce their drug use by approximately 15 per cent versus traditional ...
Article published on 09/10/2007 by Addiction Advisor
The number of City workers requiring drug and alcohol treatment linked to stress-related illness has more than doubled in the past three years, a rehabilitation clinic has claimed.Increasin ...
Article published on 06/07/2007 by Addiction Advisor
