Sentences with phrase «effects of addiction in»

Therapy has been shown to help people and their families to better manage the negative effects of addiction in their personal lives and careers.

Client struggling with the effects of addiction in their lives report having been able to achieve healing and long - term recovery.

Not exact matches

The post ties in with SRSV's lecture on non-conventional monetary policies, particularly the side - effect of market addiction to low volatility, and the lecture on price distortions, particularly the section on feedback loops.

For our purposes, the medical and psychiatric therapies may be divided into three categories according to their purpose: (1) those therapies that aid in the physical rehabilitation of the person suffering from the effects of an acute binge and / or prolonged excessive drinking over many years; (2) those that help to keep the addictive cycle broken and thus maintain sobriety for sufficient time to allow other therapies to take effect; (3) those that aim at lessening the alcoholic's personality problems — both those that contributed to the causation of his addiction and those resulting from the interpersonal chaos of progressive alcoholism.

Unfortunately, in the case of the addiction to economic growth, even when it has become obviously negative in its effects on real people, there is no wider society of those not addicted to bring pressure on the addicts.

In response to the related issues of poverty, addiction, mental illness and homelessness, programs and services grew out of the original soup kitchen to address the root causes as well as the effects of homelessness and poverty.

Tough presents striking research from neuroendocrinology and other fields revealing that childhood psychological traumas — from physical and sexual abuse to physical and emotional neglect, divorce, parental incarceration, and addiction, things found more often (though by no means exclusively) in impoverished families — overwhelm developing bodies» and minds» ability to manage the stress of events, resulting in «all kinds of serious and long - lasting negative effects, physical, psychological, and neurological.»

«Baroness Smith of Basildon to move that this House regrets that Her Majesty's Government's plans for the introduction of the draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 2014 do not include provisions for a 12 - month review of the impact of the reclassification of khat in view of the highly unusual community focus of its use, for putting a detailed policing strategy in place before a ban takes effect, or for a health strategy to prevent a transfer of addiction to other substances; and do not commit the Department for International Development to do more work with the government of Kenya to alleviate the effect of the reclassification on the Kenyan economy.»

Changes in the training of junior doctors in the long - term effects of prescribing drugs and addiction and withdrawal services - The Earl of Sandwich

Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray announced naloxone — which essentially reverses the effect of an overdose — will be sold in about 190 pharmacies in the city as part of an initiative to combat prescription drug and heroin addiction in the five boroughs.

Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that brain chemicals linked to addiction are in play with a high - sugar diet, and a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that a high - carb diet had lasting mood - elevation effects.

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

Panksepp believes that one of the effects oxytocin has is to reduce the tolerance effect that plays such a devastating role in drug addiction.

«It really now calls upon the research field to start focusing on this area,» he says, «to look at drug effects in this area, to look at the types of changes that go on during addiction in this area, to understand what the basic function of this area is and why it would be important in this kind of context.»

Researchers at the Norwegian Centre for Addiction Research (SERAF) in Oslo are examining sustained - release naltrexone — a non-addictive opioid antagonist that blocks the effects of opiates in the brain.

«Our study shows that a PAM enhances the effects of these pain - killing chemicals without producing tolerance or decreased effectiveness over time, both of which contribute to addiction in people who use opioid - based pain medications,» said Andrea G. Hohmann, a Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience and professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who led the study.

Further scientific investigation is warranted to determine how the drug achieves its effects as well as how they might be used in the treatment of «the ennui and anguish of impending death» as well as «alcoholism and other forms of drug addiction,» argues Charles Schuster, a neuroscientist at Wayne State University and a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in a commentary on the paper.

«Developing more effective opiate addiction treatments will require a change in the way we view the effects of opiates on the brain.

So in effect, if we could treat sleep loss in drug addicts, we might be able to take away some of the side effects from withdrawal and also curb addiction to some extent.

The reward center of the brain is much more attuned to the pleasurable effects of alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated, an effect that may underlie the development of addiction in women, according to a study on mice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Led by Monika Seltenhammer of MedUni Vienna's Department of Forensic Medicine (Head: Daniele U. Risser) it has now been shown in a study published in the «Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy» that the effects of this chronic stimulus can even be identified post-mortem as «dependence memory.»

Moreover, the health effects of eating too much may soon supplant another dangerous addiction — smoking — as the number one preventable cause of death in the United States.

The findings, published online August 17 in Tobacco Control, suggest that the primary effect of varenicline (marketed as Chantix) has been to displace the use of older tobacco addiction therapies, such as nicotine patches and the antidepressant, bupropion (Zyban).

Opioids have long been an important tool in the world of pain management, but the side effects of these drugs — from addiction and respiratory failure to severe itching and dizziness, can be overwhelming.

By examining the effects of mutations in the fruit fly's DNA, researchers have gained insights into everything from aging to addiction.

Raised for dozens of generations in the lab of senior author Huda Akil, Ph.D., at the U-M Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute under carefully controlled conditions, the two breeds act as a way to study the effects of genetic and inherited traits on addiction - related behaviors.

Opiate addiction is largely controlled by the formation of powerful reward memories that link the pleasurable effects of opiate - class drugs to environmental triggers that induce drug craving in individuals addicted to opiates.

Searching for how those initially measured alcohol responses might predict which group the participants fell into, King and her team found that those in the high alcohol addiction symptom group reported far higher stimulation and pleasure from alcohol effects than members of the low or intermediate groups.

«Our results highlight the importance of routes of administration when considering the health effects of cannabis and show that the co-administration of tobacco and cannabis is associated with decreased motivation to cease tobacco use, and to seek help for ceasing the use of tobacco and cannabis,» says Michael T. Lynskey, Professor of Addictions in the National Addictions Centre of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Perhaps that's not surprising given that the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that more than 2 million Americans used cocaine in 2007, which has been linked to ill effects ranging from debilitating addiction to heart attacks.

New research from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions that explored the potential side effects of the stimulant drug Ritalin on those without ADHD showed changes in brain chemistry associated with risk - taking behavior, sleep disruption and other undesirable effects.

Marijuana, like other drugs of abuse, stimulates brain dopamine (DA) signaling in the nucleus accumbens (1, 2), which is a mechanism believed to underlie the rewarding effects of drugs (3 ⇓ — 5) and to trigger the neuroadaptations that result in addiction (reviewed in ref.

His research program has provided innovative, seminal discoveries in the field of neuropharmacology, including characterization of the roles of endocannabinoids in the reinforcing effects of abused drugs and, more importantly, the involvement of dysregulated endocannabinoid function in the neuroplastic events that contribute to the pathology of addiction.

Vaccines have shown promise in reducing the effects of drugs in research models but more needs to be learned about how to apply this therapy in the arc of addiction.

There is increasing evidence in humans and laboratory animals for biologically - based sex differences in every phase of drug addiction including acute reinforcing effects, transition from occasional to compulsive use, withdrawal - associated negative affective states, craving, and relapse.

Dr. Parsons embraced a heuristic framework for the etiology of addiction that follows a trajectory from intermittent drug use motivated by hedonic effects to more frequent episodes of excessive drug intake that ultimately lead to a state of dependence, in which drug consumption is motivated by negative reinforcement (i.e., self - medication or the «staving off» of the negative consequences of withdrawal).

Dr. Parsons has provided similar insights into the mechanisms through which endocannabinoids modulate the rewarding effects of opiates, alcohol, and cocaine, and he is presently extending his evaluations of this stage of the addiction cycle to include animal models of commonly occurring genetic polymorphisms that are associated with problematic drug use and dependence in humans.

Molecular basis of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Determining the heritability of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol's positive motivational effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department of Psychology, Indiana University — Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory of Addiction Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA

Addiction happens when a person taking a substance repeatedly to induce euphoria, quell pain or otherwise change the way they feel begins to require more of the substance in an attempt to arrive at the desired effect.

May 3, 2011 Nicotine and cocaine leave similar mark on brain after first contact The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according to new neuroscience research.

It's quite one thing to triumph over addiction mentally, but one must also heal the body in order to prevent or lessen the ravaging after - effects of addiction.

When such mindfulness practices are used in skilled psychotherapy with home practice, it may lead to improvements in depression, anxiety, the effects of trauma, addictions, and eating disorders.

Am I wrong in thinking that the approaches viewed through this lens are much more similar than they might appear at first sight and that the concept of «addictive foods / pathways to food addiction — with obesity as one of the side effects» unites them?

I wasn't able to bring up any concrete studies on the pro-bingeing effects of peanut butter in humans (though if you run a Google search for «peanut butter addiction,» you'll get a bevy of testimonials from all sorts of people claiming to be addicted to the stuff), I believe it.

Negative responses don't mean that a low - carb diet is bad for you — for example, when coming off alcohol addiction (alcohol is metabolized in a semi-similar fashion to carbs) people can also get a series of potentially damaging side - effects during the detox period.

However, alcohols well - documented deleterious effects — diminished performance, mental impairment, possible addiction, and liver disease to varying degrees in certain individuals — could be seen as a good reason to steer clear of it.

The agency could not have predicted the advances in science that would uncover not only the addiction - like process that compels us to gobble up these foods, nor could they have predicted the mechanisms that reveal how these foods can change the expression of our genetic material and predispose a generation of children to metabolic disorders, including obesity and diabetes.13, 14 The agency could not have guessed that its recommendations would have especially devastating effects on minorities whom scientists believe may be genetically susceptible to diseases related to a diet high in processed grains and cereal products.15, 16

The cool variation comes in the form of his drug - addled brother who believes the film crew that's following him around is documenting his big comeback — when they're really making a documentary on the effects of drug addiction and using his name as former contender to add impact.

In fact, they're documenting the staggering effects of crack addiction, for which Dicky is a gaunt, balding, and nearly toothless cautionary poster child.