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Mekanisme Saraf Memadamkan Obat dan Asosiasi Isyarat Menyenangkan dalam Kecanduan Manusia
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Mekanisme neurobiologis yang mendasari resistensi asosiasi isyarat obat terhadap kepunahan dalam kecanduan tetap tidak diketahui. Kepunahan ketakutan sangat tergantung pada korteks prefrontal ventromedial (VMPFC). Di sini, kami...
Energy Drinks, Drug Use and the Developing Brain
New research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found that university students who regularly consume energy drinks are more likely to develop alcohol use disorders later in life. The same students are also at greater...
Why Are Many American Adults Misusing Prescription Painkillers?
Prescription painkillers are second only to marijuana as the United States drug of choice. Around 91.8 million Americans aged 18 and above used prescription painkillers in 2014, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health...
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes information...
The Brain’s Role in Drug Addiction
Latest research suggests that the impairment of the lateral habenula (LB) – the region of the brain known to register negative experiences – can contribute to the development of drug addiction.
The study, conducted on laboratory rats by...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Study Finds Increased Cannabis Use among Certain US States
Over the last few decades, the United States has entered a new phase in its cannabis control policies.
As of November 2016, 28 US states and Washington, D.C. had legalised cannabis use for medicinal purposes.
Eight of these and Washington...
Non-Medical Prescription Opioid & Heroin Use among Adolescents Who Engage in Sports
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OBJECTIVES: Previous research has found that adolescent athletes may be at increased risk of non-medical prescription opioid use (NPOU) due to injuries. Although adolescent athletes are at an increased risk of engaging in NPOU, it...
Membantu Pasien yang Minum Terlalu Banyak: Panduan Dokter
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Guideis ini ditulis untuk perawatan primer dan dokter kesehatan mental. Ini telah diproduksi oleh National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), komponen dari National Institutes of Health, dengan bimbingan dari...
Orientasi Seksual dan Perkiraan Penggunaan Zat Dewasa dan Kesehatan Mental
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Latar Belakang: Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa minoritas seksual (misalnya orang yang mengidentifikasi sebagai lesbian, gay, atau biseksual) berada pada risiko yang lebih besar untuk penggunaan zat dan masalah kesehatan mental diband...
Metode Berhenti Yang Digunakan oleh Perokok Dewasa AS, 2014-2016
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Untuk mengukur prevalensi 10 metode berhenti yang biasa digunakan oleh perokok dewasa, kami menggunakan data dari survei online longitudinal (2014-2016) yang representatif secara nasional terhadap perokok dewasa AS (n = 15.943)...
The Societal Cost of Heroin Use Disorder in the United States
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Objective
Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.
Methods
An analytic...
Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: What's There to Learn?
This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...
Bisakah Depresi Menyebabkan Penggunaan Rokok Elektrik?
Masih banyak pertanyaan yang belum terjawab mengenai efek kesehatan dari rokok elektrik. Sebuah studi baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Nicotine & Tobacco menunjukkan bahwa mungkin ada hubungan antara penggunaan rokok elektrik di kalangan...
Kemakmuran dan Tekanan Akademik: Dua Faktor yang Menyebabkan Penyalahgunaan Narkoba?
Sebuah studi baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Development and Psychopathology mengklaim telah menemukan hubungan positif antara kemakmuran, kinerja akademik yang tinggi dan penggunaan narkoba dan alkohol.
Temuan semacam itu penting...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
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...
Receptivity to Tobacco Ads Linked to Smoking Susceptibility Among Youth
There is a strong link between receptivity to tobacco product advertisements and susceptibility to smoking cigarettes later in life, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics. Put simply, the study suggests that the more...
Penghentian Teknologi dan Merokok: Apakah Email yang Dipersonalisasi Efektif untuk Calon Orang yang Berhenti?
Sebuah studi american cancer society baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Tobacco Control menunjukkan bahwa secara teratur menerima email yang dipersonalisasi dengan tips untuk berhenti di antara informasi lain bisa sama efektifnya dalam...
Excessive Drinking: More a Result of Low Socioeconomic Status Than Access to Alcohol?
Among US neighbourhoods, poverty and disorganisation, that is high levels of crime, drug trafficking and graffiti etc., may increase the risk of problem drinking, more so than the presence of bars or stores that sell alcohol.
In other...