Addiction

Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics with Disulfiram

Scientific article
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Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the...

Can Medical Marijuana Promote Illegal Use?

Scientific article
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Illegal marijuana use and reported cases of addiction have increased more rapidly in US states that passed laws to introduce medical marijuana compared to those that did not. This is according to new research to be published in the journal...

Does Plain Packaging Cause a Reduction in the Prevalence of Smoking?

Scientific article
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Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death worldwide. A recently published Cochraine Review has found that standardised, or plain, tobacco packaging could make tobacco products less appealing and, in turn, lead to a reduction in...