Sentences with phrase «found drug addiction»

I found drug addiction and homelessness rife in my area.

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After Shoff's close friend and business committed suicide, he was determined to find a better way to help people suffering from drug addictions.

There is hardly a better example of the desperate state of the drug problem in the UK than the stories of the young recovering addicts at Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community that helps people to find healing from addiction through faith in Jesus.

Coming from a family of alcoholics of which I wasn't one, I find any kind of drug addiction a horrible obstruction to a «normal» life.

But just as Rabbit proves more than a mere wastrel, Nelson is revealed as more than a dopehead: he seeks and finds a cure for his drug addiction.

As Justin investigated these testimonies further, he learned that most followed a pattern in which the gay man developed attractions to men during puberty, acted on those feelings at some point (usually destructively, with anonymous sex, drugs, and other addictions), found that life to be unfulfilling, reconnected with Jesus, and walked away from their past behaviors.

Opioid addiction has been an issue seized on by Senate Republicans, who have emphasized efforts to help and find treatment for those addicted — a stance that some have felt stands in stark contrast to the rhetoric surrounding drug epidemics in the 1980s.

A 2012 study published by the Mayo Clinic found that users of marijuana have a smaller chance of developing an addiction to the drug than users of alcohol or tobacco.

More than 400 Westchester students gathered in October as part of Project WORTHY's Youth Summit at the Westchester County Center where keynote speaker and Olympic coach Tony Hoffman warned students about how prescription drugs found in a medicine cabinet led him down a near deadly path of addiction, crime and prison, before he started his journey to recovery.

Lo's team set out to find ways to further weaken the tumors, since the drug addiction response (which can range from a mere slow down of the cancer's growth rate to cancer cell death), can be used to improve clinical outcomes.

While many people recognize addiction is a mental illness, they fail to recognize that a drug addiction is a chronic disease, said Charles O'Brien, the vice-chair of psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Studies in Addiction at the University of Pennaddiction is a mental illness, they fail to recognize that a drug addiction is a chronic disease, said Charles O'Brien, the vice-chair of psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Studies in Addiction at the University of Pennaddiction is a chronic disease, said Charles O'Brien, the vice-chair of psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Studies in Addiction at the University of PennAddiction at the University of Pennsylvania.

IT IS considered a soft drug, but increasing numbers of people are seeking help for cannabis addiction — and there's growing interest in finding ways to treat them.

For instance, in one story, a young drug addict finds help at a boarding school and later is able to help others recover from addiction.

Co-author Professor John Strang, Head of the National Addiction Centre at King's College London, said: «This study is the first to assess the international evidence - base on take - home naloxone, and we found that the antidote successfully reversed overdose in the large majority of cases where the drug was administered.

«These findings underscore the intergenerational consequences of drug and alcohol addiction and reinforce the need to develop interventions that support healthy childhood development,» says Prof. Fuller - Thomson.

Schrock: I'm sure that's been tried, but one of the new things they found is this specific tie between the circadian rhythm in our bodies and drug addiction and they found that it is actually through an epigenetic modification of the circadian rhythm; so our circadian rhythms are reset by these drugs; we actually crave them at certain times of day and that is contributing to the necessity to, you know, relapse and go back on drugs or to get that craving, you know, at a certain point.

An article, «Smaller amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex predict escalating stimulant use,» published online on May 13 in Brain: A Journal of Neurology has found that individual differences in brain structure could help to determine the risk for future drug addiction.

«Finding increased vulnerability to drug addiction and compulsive behavior in generations not directly exposed is an important consideration for legislators considering legalizing marijuana.»

«Parental exposure to marijuana linked to drug addiction, compulsive behavior in unexposed progeny, rodent sudy finds.»

When Cox and colleagues infused oxytocin specifically into the nucleus accumbens, a small brain region implicated in drug addiction, they found that it had the same effects as when they administered it systemically.

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.

These findings, which appear in Substance Abuse, come amid an opioid addiction epidemic and could offer a roadmap for how best to equip communities to prevent deaths from drug overdoses.

A study out of none other than the University of Cambridge found the same engagement of several brain areas — all involved in reward and motivation — in people with compulsive sexual behavior as previously found in people struggling with drug addiction.

Results from this study support previous findings that beliefs can alter a drug's effects on craving, providing insight into possible avenues for novel methods of addiction treatments.

Researchers at Penn Medicine's Center for Studies of Addiction have now found that the drug baclofen, commonly used to prevent spasms in patients with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders, can help block the impact of the brain's response to «unconscious» drug triggers well before conscious craving occurs.

«These findings suggest that the brain response to drug cues presented outside of awareness can be pharmacologically inhibited, providing a mechanism for baclofen's potential therapeutic benefit in addiction,» says Young.

These findings open the door for researchers to potentially explore therapies that could target this area of the brain and disrupt its role in addiction, potentially with new drugs or other techniques such as deep brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

The findings suggest that a lack of D2 - family receptors may predict both the risk of anticipatory impulsivity as well as a predisposition to behaviors like drug and other addictions such as compulsive gambling and shopping.

They also want to use their findings to further understand an individual's risk for developing an addiction, noting that addiction risk is influenced by a combination of molecular and neuronal mechanisms that influence the likelihood of progressing from initial drug exposure to repeated use.

Steven Grant, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem» with human addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptDrug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem» with human addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptdrug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptdrug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.

Researchers at University of Florida Health have discovered the mechanics of how dopamine transports into and out of brain cells, a finding that could someday lead to more effective treatment of drug addictions and neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

Researchers have discovered one reason why adolescents are more prone to drug addiction than adults, with findings that could lead to new treatments for addictive disorders.

They found the number of ED visits by patients age 21 and younger for any reason who were diagnosed with addiction or dependency on opioids — which include prescription painkillers as well as illicit drugs such as heroin — rose from 32,235 in 2008 to 49,626 in 2013.

The finding suggests new targets for addiction - blocking drugs.

They found that patient versus impulsive individuals had very different activity in two specific brain regions involved in drug addiction.

This study and this study specifically found that hard drug addiction and food addiction share very similar mechanisms, meaning that junk food addiction is actually a physical process within the brain rather than just a mental thing.

The University of Southern California conducted research into exercise addiction and found that around 15 percent of the addicts were also addicted to alcohol, illicit drugs and cigarettes.

Although the focus of the review is drug - based interventions for finding solutions to food addictions, the mechanisms of food addiction is nicely spelled out: neurotransmitter or brain chemical imbalances.

Rather than slap another drug onto that addiction, Functional Medicine seeks to find the root cause of those behaviors.

If the person that you are dating does want help to overcome their drug addiction, then the next step to take is to find a professional to help them with it.

South Africa About Blog Information on recovery from addiction, how to find help and how to live a life free from the chains of addiction of alcohol and drugs.

There have been the usual allegations of undue inaccuracies, though the only really significant difference between the film and the actual story that I could find has to do with the real - life Dicky Eklund's very lengthy addiction to drugs and criminality.

For all his talent and success, Pierson was haunted by mental illness and drug addiction, and after leaving Millwood he committed suicide, with young Zach finding the body.

Following the turbulent and troubled lives of a group of young Scottish heroin addicts, the film takes a sympathetic view of the problem of drug addiction - rather than chastising them for the situation they find themselves in, it is sympathetic to the addicts» struggle and the vicious circle that traps them and slowly destroys their lives.

It's far more than a film about drug addiction - Trainspotting is about life, death and finding your place in the world.

Victor is enslaved by drugs, and their parents, Manuel and Lila desperate to impotence must find a way to help your child sinking into despair and addiction.

Instead, Lovelace's post-Deep Throat years found her leaving the world of porn, struggling with drug addiction, and ultimately allying with anti-porn crusaders like Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon, fortifying their claims against the adult industry with tales of her own mistreatment and abuse.

Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm Director: Jacob Hatley In Ain't In It For My Health Levon Helm finds himself thrust into the musical spotlight for the first time in a quarter century, but a Grammy nomination and ever - growing audiences force him to confront the dark times that have haunted him since The Band's demise: Throat cancer, bankruptcy, drug addiction and the tragic loss of bandmates Richard Manuel and Rick Danko.

The small miracle of it, then, is that in both its absolute glee in finding the line of how much gore to show and then crossing it (a pair of glasses stop a hypodermic needle... but only for a moment) and its surprising efforts at locating a deeper thread in a frayed brother / sister relationship and the impact of drug addiction, Alvarez's film is a solid, even affecting genre piece that allows for an abundance of memorable money shots.

But after eventually finding separate solace in their art, they came together to self - publish a book they hope will reduce the stigma of addiction but also warn young people away from drugs.