Sentences with phrase «study drug abuse»

The Italian law would ban in 2017 the use of animals to study drug abuse research and xenotransplantation.

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However, Spicer then signaled that the White House sees recreational pot very differently, with the press secretary even attempting to link recreational use of the drug to the abuse of opioid drugs across the U.S. (In fact, there has been little scientific evidence linking marijuana legalization to opioid use, with some studies actually showing a decrease in opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is available.)

The DEA will now conduct its own eight - factor analysis to study the drug's potential for abuse, the current state of medical and scientific knowledge, the history and pattern of abuse, and other considerations.

In an editorial accompanying the new study, Dr. Wilson Compton of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues say policymakers need to understand which parts of medical marijuana laws are tied with positive and negative effects.

Religious people are shown in countless studies to be happier, live longer, have lower rates of drug abuse and violent / criminal behavior.

Sean's father, Vineyard founder John Wimber was a selfdescribed former «beer - guzzling, drug abusing pop musician, who was converted at the age of 29 while chain - smoking his way through a Quaker - led Bible Study».

In fact, 21 percent named alcohol or drug abuse as a reason they split in a 2004 AARP study of midlife divorce.

Fentanyl is the most common drug of abuse and in one study, 18 % of healthcare providers died or almost died before substance abuse was even suspected.

ACEs usually refers to the 10 types of childhood adversity that were measured in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, a family member who's an alcoholic or addicted to other drugs, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, witnessing a mother being abused, a family member in prison, and loss of a parent through separation or divorce.

Joseph Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, said his group's study concluded that many dads are essentially AWOL when it comes to keeping their children drug free.

A past member of NIH study sections, Dr. Lester is currently a member of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse.

Scores of animal and human studies show that early life stress, such as severe early social deprivation, leads to long - term changes in the brain, cognitive and social problems, and heightened susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and drug abuse in adulthood.

«The general recommendation is to totally avoid drug abuse while breastfeeding, because these substances can pass directly through to the newborn,» Óscar García Algar, co-author of the study and a doctor in the Paediatrics Department at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, said.

In follow - up studies these youngsters tended to grow up to be teenagers with lower SAT scores, higher body mass indexes and higher rates of drug abuse.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Studies indicate that bullied students face greater risks of truancy, drug abuse, fighting and suicide, according to Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

In these roles, Ms. Dolan was actively engaged in the study to merge the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene into a single department as well as the County's efforts to combat the epidemic of prescription drug and opiate abuse.

Sen. Charles Schumer called on New York state education officials to curb the abuse of stimulative drugs used to help get students through all - night study sessions.

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

«I'd be surprised if playing online games for 10 to 12 hours a day didn't change the brain,» says neuroscientist Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who wasn't involved in the study.

Two recent large studies reflect growing evidence that ADHD increases children's risk for abusing tobacco, alcohol and other drugs when they are older.

Boyle, a neuroscientist and chief of the science policy branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has studied the biological causes of addiction.

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

People with drug addictions who started opioid abuse later in life use injections for their drugs, or increased their use of downers before starting drug treatment, are more likely to relapse from treatment than others, says a new study from McMaster University.

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.

Veliz and colleagues analyzed data from more than 13,088 adolescents in the 2016 Monitoring the Future survey, a national study by U-M funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that tracks U.S. students in grades 8, 10 and 12.

«Being bullied does not lead to higher substance abuse: Study examines bullying's impact on future drug, alcohol use.»

The study findings also associate several other factors with an increased risk of developing BD, including preterm birth, head injury, drug exposures (especially cocaine), physical or sexual abuse, and other forms of stress.

Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the study probes members of the Native American Church for deficits in memory and other cognitive functions.

Jacqueline Lloyd, a deputy branch chief at NIH's National Institute of Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland, says Young's study is one of 11 funded under a program aimed at using social media to understand and address substance use and addiction.

Some of these studies are aimed at studying the underlying mechanisms of drug abuse whereas others focus on potential pharmacotherapies.

Halpern and Pope won grants for their project not only from the National Institute on Drug Abuse but also from Harvard Medical School and two private foundations that support research on psychedelics: the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and the Heffter Research Institute (named after the German chemist who isolated mescaline from peyote and discovered its psychoactive properties in the late 1800s).

Other study participants described experiences of physical neglect, household drug abuse, exposure to violence at home and in their communities and other adverse experiences in childhood.

«Historically, drug withdrawal for newborns has been described among illicit drug use such as heroin or women treated for previous opioid abuse, but this is really one of the first studies to look at legal prescriptions for pregnant women.

The presentation will provide preliminary results from a large (N = 300) study following outpatient drug and alcohol clients for two years to examine how changes in new and old relationships are linked to substance abuse.

Past studies have shown that when an expectant mother exposes herself to alcohol or drug abuse or she experiences some trauma or illness, her baby may later develop a psychiatric disorder, including some forms of autism or post-traumatic stress disorder, later in life.

Dr Annie Herbert, from UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare, said: «A huge amount of deaths after adversity - related injury in our study were from suicide or drug or alcohol abuse, which to an extent should be preventable.

This study was funded by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

In this study, a team of researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse led by Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD, set out to fill this critical gap in roadside marijuana testing knowledge.

The researchers, led by neuroscientist Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, studied a total of 142 men and women lacking any known history of mental illness or drug or alcohol abuse.

In the study, Bruce Hope, from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues used animal models to investigate if the brain forms drug - related memories in a similar Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues used animal models to investigate if the brain forms drug - related memories in a similar drug - related memories in a similar way.

Some of the best data available show that people who start drinking as adolescents and drink more heavily then are more likely to have problems with alcohol and drug abuse later in life, says Ilene Bernstein, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the senior author of the new study.

«We behave the way we do in a specific situation because we have learned an association — a memory — tying an environmental cue to a behavior,» said Nobuyoshi Suto, TSRI Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, who co-led the study with TSRI Professor Friedbert Weiss and Bruce Hope, a principal investigator at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The findings come from surveys of more than 72,000 U.S. high school seniors, conducted yearly from 1976 to 2011 through the Monitoring the Future study, supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The FDA needs to move beyond its traditional focus on clinical studies about drug effectiveness and side effects, and to seek public health data on potential abuse, the Academies advises in its 400 - page proposal for targeting the deadly issue.

To follow up on results from this study, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded Ghahremani and his colleagues a grant to examine the effects of the YES!

Beginning with the Nazi Doctors» Trial at the 1946 Nuremberg Trial (1), coverage includes publication of Henry Beecher's «Ethics and Clinical Research» (2), The New York Times exposure of the public health service syphilis study in Macon County, Alabama (the infamous «Tuskeegee case»)(3), the University of Pennsylvania / Gelsinger gene transfer case, and The Washington Post series on international clinical drug testing abuses (4).

The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that 40 to 60 percent of addicted individuals will relapse, and in some studies the rates are as high as 80 percent at six months after treatment.

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 recepAbuse, 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 recepabuse, 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.

«I thought it was quite elegant, a very nicely done study,» says Bryon Adinoff, a psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies drug and alcohol abuse.