Tag: drug research
How Working Out Can Help You in Working Through Addiction
The “gains” of working out just increased. A new study published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the journal ACS Omega shows...
Koch Funds Ohio State University Drug Research Center
The Charles Koch Foundation has provided a $4.5 million dollar gift to fund the establishment of the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center (DEPC), a...
Functional MRI used to investigate new drugs for drug relapse prevention
Researchers in the UK are studying the effects of experimental medicines using functional MRI (fMRI) technology to investigate the neuropharmacology of brain processes including...
Implant from Turkey could treat addiction worldwide
After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a version of buprenorphine called Probuphine to be used as an implant to treat opioid abuse...
New immunotherapy can change cocaine addiction treatment
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have developed an antibody to prevent the effects of cocaine from reaching the brain,...
Increase in marijuana use linked to economic insecurity, new study shows
A recent study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence aimed to explore the nature of socioeconomic and gender habits in marijuana use...
Why are women more likely to get hooked on cocaine?
Women are generally more vulnerable to drug addiction than men, especially when it comes to cocaine. This week, the Journal Nature Communications published a study...
Justice isn’t colorblind when it comes to drug abuse, incarceration and...
Justice may be considered blind, but a new study shows that it’s definitely not colorblind. Researchers from Yale University, Drexel University, and American University recently...