News tagged with drug users
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Cocaine images capture motivated attention among users
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have conducted the most comprehensive study to date of how cocaine users respond ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections
Illicit drug users are at increased risk of being exposed to microbial pathogens and are more susceptible to serious infections say physicians writing in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The review, which aims to imp ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Study examines recurrent wound botulism in injection drug users
Botulism is a rare disease and recurrent botulism even more rare. However, in California, recurrent wound botulism among injection drug users has been on the rise and makes up three-quarters of reported cases in the United ...
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Feb 25, 2011 |
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New study finds no cognitive impairment among ecstasy users
The drug known as ecstasy has been used by 12 million people in the United States alone and millions more worldwide. Past research has suggested that ecstasy users perform worse than nonusers on some tests of mental ability. But ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Red Cross scolds 'failed' HIV policy among nations
(AP) -- The spread of HIV and AIDS among millions of people could be slowed if addicts who inject drugs were treated as medical patients rather than as criminals, the International Federation of the Red Cross ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 26, 2010 |
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Milkshake like cocaine for overeaters: Imaging shows the powerful impact food has on the brain
Millions of overweight Americans consider food the enemy. And according to new research, this enemy plays devious mind games.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Interpol chief's identity stolen on Facebook
Criminals stole the Facebook identity of Interpol head Ronald K. Noble and used it to obtain information on an operation by the international police agency, Noble has said.
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Aging drug users are increasing and facing chronic physical and mental health problems
Health and social services are facing a new challenge, as many illicit drug users get older and face chronic health problems and a reduced quality of life. That is one of the key findings of research published in the September ...
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Heavy drug-use among bad boys curbed by parental monitoring and peers
Aggressive and hyperactive boys with low parental monitoring are more likely to befriend deviant peers and become heavy drug users as teens, according to a new study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors. Yet the in ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Improved antiretroviral treatment access requires decriminalization
A paper in The Lancet Series on HIV in people who use drugs says that in order to improve access to antiretroviral therapy among injecting drug users (IDUs), health providers must focus less on individual patient's abilit ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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HIV-infected drug users at greater risk of viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, bacterial infections and mental illness
HIV-infected drug users have increased age-matched morbidity and mortality compared with HIV-infected people who do not use drugs. This includes an increased risk of viral hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), bacterial infections, ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Drug users must be decriminalized along with scale-up of combination treatment and changes to drug control
In a paper in The Lancet Series on HIV in people who use drugs, a call to action is made by experts who say that while scale-up of various interventions outlined in earlier papers are vital, these are not enough. Drug users ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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12 myths about HIV/AIDS and people who use drugs
In a Comment which forms part of the Series in Lancet, 12 myths about HIV/AIDS are debunked.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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HIV in women who use drugs: Double neglect, double risk
A Comment in The Lancet Series on HIV says that HIV infections continue to rise in drug-involved women,especially injecting drug users in Asia and eastern Europe, and in crack-cocaine users in the USA and other countries. ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Study reveals state of HIV/AIDS in Middle East, North Africa
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar researcher Laith Abu-Raddad was the foundation for a report on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa presented June 28 in Dubai.
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Jul 09, 2010 |
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