Michael Nader, PhD, investigates drug addiction in self - administering nonhuman primates, focusing
on cocaine abuse.
Not exact matches
With the results of the current study in hand, Snyder has brokered a deal between that company and the National Institute
on Drug
Abuse (NIDA) for NIDA to test CGP3466B as a treatment for
cocaine addiction.
Reid's research has focused
on using isradipine and naltrexone for
cocaine abuse.
On the other side of the
cocaine high is the
cocaine crash, and understanding how one follows the other can provide insight into the physiological effects of drug
abuse.
Yavin Shaham, a neurobiologist at the National Institute
on Drug
Abuse in Bethesda, Md., said in a press statement that the new work is an example of «basic research that can be readily translated to the treatment of
cocaine addiction in humans.»
Researchers found that a pocket near the top of the brain stem may be key in determining whether someone is likely to engage in compulsive behavior or become hooked
on drugs like
cocaine, which is currently
abused by an estimated two million Americans.
«This is the first biological evidence I've seen that
cocaine abuse may have an aging effect
on the brain,» says social scientist Caryl Beynon of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom.
Abuse and dependence
on «hard drugs» (
cocaine, hallucinogen or PCP, opiate, amphetamine and sedatives) are less common among delinquent African American youth than those who are non-Hispanic white, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
For example, her paper
on gender differences in recovery from
cocaine abuse has been widely cited.
On that basis are we to allow
cocaine abuse since that too is widespread?
Stephen Magura and Alexandre Laudet argue that in - utero exposure to
cocaine and other drugs can lead to congenital deficits that may make a child more difficult to care for and, therefore, more prone to being maltreated.9 Parenting skills can also suffer among substance -
abusing parents, who may be insufficiently responsive to their infants.10 Caregivers who
abuse substances also may place a higher priority
on their drug use than
on caring for their children, which can lead them to neglect their children's needs for such things as food, clothing, hygiene, and medical care.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to provide nationally representative data
on the prevalence, sociodemographic correlates, and comorbidity of antisocial syndromes across alcohol and 8 specific drug use disorders, including sedative, tranquilizer, opiate, stimulant, hallucinogen, cannabis,
cocaine, and inhalant / solvent
abuse and dependence.