Cocaine dependence: a fast-track for brain ageing?
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26.042012April 26, 2012
Sweden: Metropolitan focus on cannabis
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On Friday, April 27, Maria Larsson, Minister for Children and the Elderly, Councillors Anna Koenig Jerlmyr (Stockholm), Dario Espiga (Gothenburg)...
25.042012April 25, 2012
UK: The pro-drugs lobby never sleeps
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Kathy Gyngell: “You might think that with a Conservative-led government there would be no prospect of decriminalising drugs, let alone...
25.042012April 25, 2012
Drug legalisation is a policy in search of a disaster
By WFADIn News Archive
The proposal to legalise drugs is a policy in search of a disaster. This is a policy that is often...
24.042012April 24, 2012
Scientists find anticonvulsant drug helps marijuana smokers kick the habit
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found clinical evidence that the drug gabapentin, currently on the market to treat...
23.042012April 23, 2012
Transnational crime threatens millennium development goals
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The 21st Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice opened today with speakers acknowledging that transnational organized...
23.042012April 23, 2012
Pro-pot propositions up in smoke
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Coalition for a Drug Free California (CDFC) announces the failure of the “illegal-drug lobby” to certify yet another pro-drug proposition...
23.042012April 23, 2012
22.042012April 22, 2012
Cocaine decreases activity of a protein necessary for normal functioning of the brain’s reward system
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New research from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York reveals that repeated exposure to cocaine decreases the activity of...
22.042012April 22, 2012
Speed and ecstasy associated with depression in teenagers
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A five year study conducted with thousands of local teenagers by University of Montreal researchers reveals that those who used...