News tagged with cocaine abusers

New study: Up to 90 percent of US paper money contains traces of cocaine

You probably have cocaine in your wallet, purse, or pocket. Sound unlikely or outrageous? Think again! In what researchers describe as the largest, most comprehensive analysis to date of cocaine contamination ...

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 12

Cocaine Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Addiction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine resulted in a substantial reduction in cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial supported by the National Institute on Drug ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

A new ally in the battle against cocaine addiction

A recent study shows that a bacterial protein may help cocaine addicts break the habit.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 02, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New Findings Imply Exercise in Adolescence May Help Prevent Drug Abuse

(PhysOrg.com) -- Daily physical exercise during adolescence decreases cocaine-seeking behavior in young adult rats, implying that exercise may protect against cocaine abuse later in life.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New mechanism underlying cocaine addiction discovered

Researchers have identified a key epigenetic mechanism in the brain that helps explain cocaine's addictiveness, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Longitudinal study investigates cocaine's impact on adolescent development

Teen years are filled with experimenting. Sometimes that means trying some risky behaviors.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

(PhysOrg.com) -- When asked to inhibit their response to a "cocaine-cues" video, active cocaine abusers were, on average, able to suppress activity in brain regions linked to drug craving, according to a new ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Why can't some people give up cocaine?

Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0