Sentences with phrase «for addictions research»

This comprehensive family treatment program — Arkansas Center for Addictions Research, Education and Services — focuses on breaking the cycle of maternal addiction.

Arkansas Center for Addictions Research, Education, and Services (Arkansas CARES) has been rated by the CEBC in the area of: Substance Abuse Treatment (Adult).

The Arkansas Center for Addictions Research, Education, and Services (CARES) provides comprehensive residential substance abuse prevention and treatment services to low - income pregnant women, mothers, and their children.

«We know that people generally cut down on drinking as they age, especially if they have health problems,» stated co-author Tim Stockwell, PhD, director of the Centre for Addictions Research at the University of Victoria, in a press release.

He is director of the university's Centre for Addictions Research of BC in Canada.

Perhaps most exciting for addiction research is that these processes may be similar in the transition to cocaine, alcohol and opioid addictions.

The study was published by the Substance Abuse Research and Treatment journal and was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the McMaster Population Genomics Program and the Peter Boris Centre for Addiction Research.

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.

In a follow - on project to be conducted in collaboration with MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology and Center for Addiction Research and Science (AddRess) and, in particular, with drug and dopamine expert Harald Sitte, amongst others, the objective is now to find out whether, and, if so, how, activation of DeltaFosB can be prevented and how this highly promising starting point can be used to treat the onset of addictive behaviour.

Address: Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam Department of Psychiatry, room PA1.188 Meibergdreef 5 1105 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands

Marijuana is typically smoked, which produces the most rapid delivery into the bloodstream, says Kathryn Cunningham, PhD, director of the Center for Addiction Research at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston.

Not exact matches

The decree also calls for research into all the potential health benefits of marijuana, as well as programs that prevent children and adolescents from having access to marijuana and programs for those who develop addictions.

For instance, Gingrich is a strong advocate for funding scientific research and has even endorsed doubling the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and medication - assisted treatment for opioid addictiFor instance, Gingrich is a strong advocate for funding scientific research and has even endorsed doubling the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and medication - assisted treatment for opioid addictifor funding scientific research and has even endorsed doubling the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and medication - assisted treatment for opioid addictifor the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and medication - assisted treatment for opioid addictifor opioid addiction.

The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.

«I realized I wanted to be one of the people creating and defining organizational strategy, not just implementing it,» explains the University of Minnesota's Audrey Klein, a foundation head whose research examines treatments for alcohol and drug addiction.

About MaRS Innovation MaRS Innovation is the commercialization agent for Ontario's exceptional discovery pipeline from 15 leading academic institutions, including Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), MaRS Discovery District, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, St. Michael's Hospital, Ryerson University, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital and York University.

Provincial governments devote some portion of gambling revenue to gambling addiction research and treatment (for example, in B.C., the total is 0.5 %; in Ontario, it's 2.6 %; and in Quebec, it's 2.3 %) but it appears that Canadians would like to see more done.

MaRS Innovation is delighted to announce that two of its commercialization projects — notably an umbilical cord stem cell technology from Mount Sinai Hospital and nicotine addiction therapy from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)-- have received Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Proof of Principle (PoP)addiction therapy from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)-- have received Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Proof of Principle (PoP)Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)-- have received Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Proof of Principle (PoP) funding.

During the 1970s, DuPont worked to expand Endo's line of analgesics and to develop treatments for drug addiction, but Endo proved unable to accommodate the expansion and squabbling among research groups slowed development of new drugs.

A few years ago I conducted a survey of 350 people with sex and porn addiction as part of my research for my first book, Understanding and Treating Sex Addiction (Roaddiction as part of my research for my first book, Understanding and Treating Sex Addiction (RoAddiction (Routledge).

This research is not meant as advice for certain extreme situations - where there is active addiction, abuse, etc..

Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge, psychiatric investigators with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»

Mays explained that although indoor tanning is becoming less common overall in the United States, research indicates that it can be a problematic behavior for some young women similar to other forms of addiction.

«Tobacco use in 1997 is not just some bad habit, but a powerful addiction that warrants appropriate medical treatment,» says Michael Fiore, M.D., director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

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.

In addition, neither condition emerges in the first years of life, but rather both appear years or even decades later, says senior author Dr. Arturas Petronis, head of the Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

«The idea is that a small reduction in alcohol — such as beer with four per cent ethanol content versus six per cent — would reduce alcohol intake per drinker even if the same overall amount of beverage is consumed,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, lead author and Director of the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada.

Dr Rachael Panizzo, Programme Manager for Mental Health and Addiction at the Medical Research Council, added: «This large study provides further evidence of the complex genetics underlying schizophrenia.

Their work, in many ways, would set the stage for the revolution now overtaking the field of addiction research.

«Use of psychosocial treatments in conjunction with medication for opioid addiction: Recommended, but supporting research is sparse.»

Scientists at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas are the first to propose a systematic and quantitative model for drug addiction research.

«Given the current state of the opioid overdose epidemic, it is critical that patients seeking help for opioid addiction have access to comprehensive treatment that includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision of psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and colleagues

Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

We all ought to consume resveratrol for good brain health; our research suggests it may also prevent the changes in the brain that occur with the development of drug addiction.»

But this social jet lag poses some serious health and mental health risks: new research finds that for teenagers, even a short period of sleep restriction could, over the long - term, raise their risk for depression and addiction.

Their research targets treatments for methamphetamine abuse and has focused on the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in drug addiction.

People in addiction treatment programs around the world use tobacco at two to three times the rate of people who are not being treated for addiction, according to a review of research studies from 20 countries other than the United States.

Having a parent with an alcohol use disorder increases the risk for dating violence among teenagers, according to a study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions.

«This is a timely contribution about one of the most important, if not the most important risk factor for liver cirrhosis globally, because our overall knowledge about drinking patterns and liver cirrhosis is sparse and in part contradictory,» said noted expert Jürgen Rehm, PhD, Director of the Social and Epidemiological Research Department of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto.

So says R. Michael Bagby, clinical research director at the University of Toronto's Center for Addiction and Mental Health.

Karim Nader, a behavioral neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, called the new research «promising» for treating addiction, adding that he doesn't know of a one - time treatment that causes rodents to stop taking drugs for long periods of time.

«We used a highly controlled experimental design, to ensure that any benefits of mindfulness training were not likely explained by people believing it was a better treatment,» said co-author Dr Tom Freeman (Senior fellow of the Society for the Study of Addiction), who was part of the research team while based at UCL.

For example, NIDA is funding research to improve access to medication - assisted therapies, develop new medications for opioid addiction, and expand access to naloxone by exploring more user - friendly delivery systems (for example, nasal sprayFor example, NIDA is funding research to improve access to medication - assisted therapies, develop new medications for opioid addiction, and expand access to naloxone by exploring more user - friendly delivery systems (for example, nasal sprayfor opioid addiction, and expand access to naloxone by exploring more user - friendly delivery systems (for example, nasal sprayfor example, nasal sprays).

The goal is to determine whether «the inhibitory effect of cortisol on addictive cravings might also have positive implications for nicotine, alcohol or gambling addiction,» says Dominique de Quervain, Director of the research platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Basel.

Garet Lahvis was a 4th - year assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, when his department chair told him that his studies of social motivation and communication in mice — research with implications for autism and drug addiction — had moved too far from the department's focus on clinical plastic surgery and that the department would have to let him go.

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

For example, Howard Shaffer, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and director of the division on addiction at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and his co-workers have been conducting research with an online gambling site called bwin.party Digital Entertainment.

The researchers also found increased activity between areas of the prefrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens, a center for reward sensitivity that is often implicated in addiction research.

«Much more research is needed in order for us to more fully understand the underlying mechanism and specific role of the insular cortex, but is clear that something is going on in this part of the brain that is influencing addiction,» said Abdolahi.