News tagged with cocaine addiction

70 percent of drug-addicted men admit they consume drugs to increase their sexual pleasure

72.28 per cent of drug addict men admit to have consumed drugs to be able to have sexual relations and most of them (58%) choose cocaine to this purpose, the narcotic which increases the most sexual incapacitation. On the ...

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created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Injections of licorice ingredient show promise as treatment for cocaine addiction

An ingredient in licorice shows promise as an antidote for the toxic effects of cocaine abuse, including deadly overdoses of the highly addictive drug, researchers in Korea and Pennsylvania are reporting. Their study is in ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ritalin may cause changes in the brain’s reward areas

(PhysOrg.com) -- A common treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, prescribed millions of times a year, may change the brain in the same ways that cocaine does, a new study in mice suggests. Research from Rockefeller ...

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