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Glossary: Cocaine Detox and Treatment
Information on Cocaine Detox & Treatment
Cocaine is a class of drugs know as a stimulant (similar to amphetamine).
WHat happens when you stop taking cocaine?
Abrupt cessation of cocaine use ....
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Glossary: Cocaine Addiction
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 the street as a recreational drug. ....
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Information Article: Cocaine addiction
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 illegal and a class A drug. Cocaine can be ....
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News Article: Pablo and FRANK - the new cocaine campaign
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', who died as he was being used to smuggle Cocaine into the country. Waking from the dead, he goes on a mission to find out the truth about the risks and ....
Article published on 19/01/2009 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Number of babies exposed to drugs effectively reduced by 'recovery coaches'
... 69% of the women had given birth to at least one substance-exposed infant prior to enrollment in the study.
Although several characteristics - age, race, and Cocaine or heroin use among them - place certain women at higher risk for giving birth to a substance exposed infant, mothers who have at least one prior substance-exposed infant ....
Article published on 13/01/2009 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: DrugScope responds to NTA figures on young people in treatment for substance misuse
... data confirms that these are the two most commonly used substances among under 18s.The numbers of young people receiving treatment for a primary problem with heroin (3%), Cocaine (2%) or crack Cocaine (1%) were comparatively low.
Martin Barnes, Chief Executive of DrugScope, said:
"It is clearly of concern when any young person faces ....
Article published on 04/01/2009 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: NIDA Monitoring the Future Survey, Results published
... use declined among 10th graders. Crystal methamphetamine (i.e., Ice) use continues to decline past-year use fell among 12th graders, from 1.6% to 1.1%. Also, past-year crack Cocaine use declined from 2007 to 2008 among 12th graders, from 1.9% to 1.6%.
The use of alcohol in all prevalence periods measured among 10th graders decreased. For ....
Article published on 27/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Study assesses success of anti meth adverts
... using meth is not a risky behaviour; teenagers were four times more likely to strongly approve of regular meth use; teenagers were more likely to report that taking heroin and Cocaine is not risky; and up to 50% of teenagers reported that the graphic ads exaggerate the risks of using meth.
The review found that the MMP overlooked these ....
Article published on 24/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Reward stress link points to new targets for treating addiction
... CRF signalling to increase glutamate signalling.
The researchers next looked for this mechanism in animals. William Nobis, an M.D./Ph.D. student, injected mice with Cocaine and studied signalling in brain slices. His studies confirmed that in vivo administration of Cocaine engaged the dopamine-CRF signalling cascade that the team had ....
Article published on 21/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: SAMHSA releases new data on drug related hospital emergency department visits
... provides the latest estimates on how substance use affects this critical part of the Nation's healthcare system.
The report's more notable findings include:
Cocaine was involved in 548,608 emergency department visits.
Marijuana was involved in 290,563 emergency department visits.
Heroin was involved in 189,780 ....
Article published on 19/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Current alcohol and licensing policy could be making things worse for young drinkers
... of alcohol which may increase the risk of blackouts, hangovers and even alcohol poisoning. It may also encourage the use of other recreational drugs such as cannabis and Cocaine as drinkers are socialising in unsupervised environments.
The authors argue that the policy of banning drink promotions or specials such as "happy hour" in ....
Article published on 18/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: More support needed for employers to hire addicts, says research
... more radical steps are taken to support employers. The UKDPC research highlighted that:
Two thirds of employers surveyed would refuse to employ a former heroin or crack Cocaine user, even if they were otherwise suitable for the job.
Up to 80% of those in drug treatment are out of work, yet employment can increase the chances of ....
Article published on 08/12/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Positive environment can help drug addiction
... from the Institut de physiologie et biologie cellulaire (CNRS/Universite de Poitiers) have shown that positive and stimulating environmental conditions make it easier to treat Cocaine addiction.
Even though numerous data exist on the mechanisms of Cocaine addiction, there are as yet no effective therapies, making it very urgent that new ....
Article published on 30/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Hope for treating relapse to methamphetamine abuse
... that has been shown to block any behaviour associated with methamphetamine use, and is currently being tested by Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners for safety and efficacy against Cocaine and methamphetamine addiction in humans in Phase II clinical trials across the U.S.
"In human drug abusers, many things can cause relapse exposure or access to ....
Article published on 29/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Blocking a neuropeptide receptor decreases nicotine addiction
... behavior. Our previous studies in close collaboration with other Scripps Research scientists have shown that hypocretin-1 receptors play a central role in regulating relapse to Cocaine seeking. With that in mind, it seemed reasonable to test whether it was involved in nicotine reward as well."
The new study indeed showed that blocking the ....
Article published on 27/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: New charity partnership looks to support service users with complex needs
... drug problem presents us with ongoing concerns and future challenges', added the Director.
Highlighted in the report are: warning signs over heroin; continuing increases in Cocaine use; high rates of drug-related deaths; and reports of diversion and illicit production of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. Special attention is also given to the ....
Article published on 25/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Effects of cocaine use on mother infant relationships studied by UNC, Yale partnership
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 interactions between mothers and their infants.
The project's researchers hope their findings will aid the development of new intervention strategies ....
Article published on 21/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Innovative drugs of abuse testing system announced
... AEX:PHI) have recently announced an innovative handheld drugs-of-abuse detection device.
Concateno-Philips pioneering system will make testing for drugs such as Cocaine and heroin quicker, simpler and easier enabling immediate point-of-care drug test results, similar to current alcohol tests. Concateno and Philips will deliver the new ....
Article published on 16/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Extended treatment with combination medication for opioid addicted youths shows benefit
... treatment vs. 70 percent of 12-week buprenorphine-naloxone patients. During weeks 1 through 12, patients in the 12-week buprenorphine-naloxone group reported less use of opioids, Cocaine and marijuana, less injecting, and less need for additional addiction treatment. High levels of opioid use occurred in both groups at follow-up.
"Taken ....
Article published on 14/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Drug related preference in cocaine addiction extends to images
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 for the drug-related images.
Findings from this study, which was conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, ....
Article published on 07/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Cocaine addicts display a thinner cortex which may reflect drug use and a pre-existing disposition
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 by Cell Press in the October 9th issue of the journal Neuron, maps the topography of the addicted brain and provides new insight into the effect of Cocaine on ....
Article published on 02/11/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Understanding why methamphetamine is so addictive
... its pharmacokinetics - the rate at which it enters and clears the brain, and its distribution. This study in 19 healthy, non-drug-a-busing volunteers includes a comparison with Cocaine and also looked for differences by race. It will appear in the November 1, 2008, issue of Neuroimage.
"Methamphetamine is one of the most addictive and ....
Article published on 31/10/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Potential new drug for cocaine addiction and overdose, Journal of the American Chemical Society
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 medicine for fighting overdoses and addictions of the illicit drug. Their findings are scheduled for the Sept. 24 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical ....
Article published on 24/09/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Cocaine addiction linked to voluntary drug use and cellular memory
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 memory, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
The researchers conclude that the pharmacologic ....
Article published on 29/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Understanding addiction mechanisms is the key to designing efficient therapy
... underlying this phenomenon is the key for designing efficient therapy. Two separate studies published by Cell Press is the August 14 issue of the journal Neuron identify specific Cocaine-induced changes in dopamine (DA) neurons that play a pivotal role in behaviours associated with drug addiction.
DA neurons in an area of the brain called the ....
Article published on 12/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: The Treatment Outcomes Profile
... interview by 163 key workers.
The findings were that twenty outcome measures met inter-rater reliability criteria, including:
days used alcohol, opioids, crack Cocaine, Cocaine powder, amphetatines, cannabis, and one other named substance
days injected and period prevalence of direct or indirect needle/syringe sharing
days ....
Article published on 09/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Brains reaction to self administered cocaine differs
... study, published by Cell Press in the July 31 issue of the journal Neuron, examines the brain's reward circuitry and details strikingly distinct influences of self-administered Cocaine compared to natural rewards or passive Cocaine injection.
Dopamine (DA) neurons residing within the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain are a key part of ....
Article published on 09/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Addiction treatment proves successful in animal weight loss study
... be published online August 20, 2008, by the journal Synapse. Vigabatrin is currently undergoing U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Phase II clinical trials against Cocaine and methamphetamine addiction across the U.S.
In the current study, animals genetically bred to be obese experienced a loss of up to 19 percent of their total ....
Article published on 07/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Mechanism behind Cocaine Craving Identified
... research has shown that these cells become more excitable when a person takes drugs. To find out the functional meaning of this, these researchers used a mouse model for Cocaine dependence. When they blocked the cells' receptors for glutamate the brain's most important signal substance the risk of relapsing into addiction vanished. The findings ....
Article published on 06/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Cocaine, How addiction develops
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Addiction leaves detectable traces in the brain: in particular regions of the central nervous system, which produce the messenger substance dopamine, the drug Cocaine causes molecular restructuring processes at the synapses, the points of connection between two neurons. As a reaction to the drug, protein subunits are exchanged in ....
Article published on 05/08/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Research shows those who are fit fight drugs better
... with three Davidson student research assistants- Karl Schmidt, Jordan Iordanou and Martina Mustroph-all of whom graduated in May. They compared the tendency to self-administer Cocaine between two groups of rats. One group of rats lived in laboratory cages equipped with a running wheel, and the other group lived in a standard cage with no wheel. During ....
Article published on 15/07/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Pregnant substance users can deliver healthy babies with early treatment
... as women who were not using cigarettes, alcohol or other drugs. This is also the largest study to examine multiple substances: cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamines, Cocaine and heroin.
"This programme can happen everywhere and should become the gold standard for women who are pregnant and using cigarettes, alcohol or other drugs," ....
Article published on 09/07/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Impulsivity could be a key focus for future drug treatment
... study is important because it shows that impulsivity is a vulnerability characteristic that predicts a switch to compulsive drug use when individuals are exposed to and take Cocaine. Therefore, drug addiction is characterized by a shift from impulsive to compulsive behaviour.
"The study also shows that initial responsiveness to the ....
Article published on 16/06/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Broad Differences in Alcohol, Tobacco and Illegal Drug Use across Countries
... found that the United States had among the highest lifetime rates of tobacco and alcohol use and led in the proportion of participants reporting cannabis (marijuana) or Cocaine use at least once during their lifetime.
The study, led by Dr. Louisa Degenhardt of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and colleagues, looked at ....
Article published on 01/06/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Researchers explore new treatment options for cocaine addiction
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 to restore the fragile balance of chemicals or neurotransmitters in the brain destroyed by Cocaine abuse.
F. Gerard Moeller, Ph.D., professor in the ....
Article published on 24/05/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Molecular Fingerprint Of Cocaine Addiction Revealed
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 affecting brain function.
The identified changes are more numerous and long-lasting than previously thought, which may provide a biological explanation ....
Article published on 03/05/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Subconscious cues 'can trigger drug cravings'
... the study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (Nida), researchers presented drug addicts with drug-related pictures such as those of crack pipes and chunks of Cocaine.
Despite the pictures being flashed up so quickly that the patients were not consciously aware they had seen them, it was found that the subconscious cues ....
Article published on 31/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Doctors warned to check young patients for cocaine use
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 Association called for physicians to ensure they find out if patients who are exhibiting chest pain have used Cocaine in order to make sure that suitable drugs are ....
Article published on 20/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: New research could further understanding of reasons behind cocaine use
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 experiments with rats where their negative reactions to Cocaine appear to echo those experience by humans.
During the experiment, it was found that despite ....
Article published on 13/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: 'One fifth' of US students abusing prescription drugs
... drugs.
Carol Boyd of the University of Michigan's Substance Abuse Research Center said: "They perceive prescription medications as safer than street drugs such as Cocaine and heroin despite the fact that the stimulants and the opioids (painkillers) are just like Cocaine and heroin. And they're very easy for them to get," reported the ....
Article published on 07/03/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Research, Heart drug could combat cocaine cravings
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 at the effect of diltiazem, a drug usually used to treat high blood pressure, on rats.
The study found that the drug reduced the animals' Cocaine ....
Article published on 29/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Brain's role in cocaine addiction revealed
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 have identified why some people suffer long-term Cocaine addictions while others are able to use it only socially.
According to Dr Hugh Garavan, brain ....
Article published on 27/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Addiction link with mental illness explored
... Chambers said addiction was often seen in people diagnosed with a mental illness and both were linked to the walnut-shaped amygdalas.
These ranged from smoking to Cocaine addiction and anxiety disorders to schizophrenia and depression.
Among the findings was highlighted data showing between four to eight of every ten people with ....
Article published on 23/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Research brings new hope for cocaine treatment
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 because it help control emotions, the drug also has an impact on brain metabolism.
This is the process by which the brain regulates its ....
Article published on 20/02/2008 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Brain link between mental illness and addiction discovered
... fear in an elevated maze, and kept socialising even when exposed to the scent of a predator.
"Crucially, these same rats also were significantly more sensitive to Cocaine after just one exposure. And rats given repeated Cocaine injections later showed even stronger expressions of the enduring changes in behavior - suggesting an overall ....
Article published on 04/12/2007 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Lindsey Lohan speaks of 'sobering' and 'humbling' experience in rehab
... entered a centre for alcohol treatment in August after a misdemeanor for drunken driving and Cocaine charges following two arrests.
In an interview with OK magazine she said: "It was a sobering experience."
"It was humbling. It made me ....
Article published on 12/10/2007 by Addiction Advisor
News Article: Sharp rise in City workers seeking alcohol treatment
... abuse and other forms of behavioural abuse," Marco Martinez, the clinic's business development director, told the Evening Standard.
"There is alcohol abuse and Cocaine is increasingly commonplace now. That's how people wind down after working in these macho environments," the director revealed.
Recent research by mental ....
Article published on 06/07/2007 by Addiction Advisor
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