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Alcohol Shown to be the Most Dangerous Drug
If asked, most Americans would state that heroin and cocaine are probably the most dangerous drugs. Surprisingly, they would be wrong. Alcohol is proving to be more dangerous than heroin,...
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Study Reveals Possible Connection Between Drug Abuse and E-Cigarettes
As an emerging alternative to smoking cigarettes, e-cigarettes have become the subject of tons of research. A recent study appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine explains results that...
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Researchers Examine Treatment for Brain Damage Caused by Cocaine
One side effect of heavy cocaine usage can be brain damage. An addiction to cocaine is difficult to overcome due to the extreme cravings, but brain damage from the drug makes it even harder for...
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Scientists Discover Method of Detecting Cocaine Use from Fingerprints
Scientists may have discovered a more effective way to detect cocaine use among people. Currently, the most common methods of drug testing are urine analysis (UA) and blood tests. These measure...
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Deformities Caused By Excessive Cocaine Use
Many cocaine users often do so in binges, meaning periods of abstinence and then heavy abuse for a day or so. There are also those who become addicted to the drug and wind up using it daily. Any amount...
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Cocaine Cut with Caffeine Found to be More Dangerous
As if cocaine was not dangerous enough, drug dealers have found another way to make it more addictive and potent. By adding caffeine, drug manufacturers in South America have increased the potency and...
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MIT Study Shows Treatment More Cost Effective than Drug War Expense
South America has long been in the cross hairs of the DEA and other government officials in regards to the illicit drug trade. The continent has been the biggest supplier of cocaine to the United...
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Hormones May Help Women Overcome Addiction
As researchers discover more information about drugs and their interactions mentally and physically, some powerful data shows that women become addicted to drugs faster than men, but there are more...
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Opioids and Cocaine Make for a Dangerous Combination
There was a time when cocaine use was sweeping across the country. The drug took inner cities by storm in the eighties and nineties and claimed many lives in the process. Then, cocaine use generally...
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Cocaine Use by Fathers at Conception May Cause Learning Disabilities in Children
There has been extensive research regarding drug use by pregnant women and the effects on their children before and after birth. However, very little research has been conducted into possible links...
View ArticleResearch Continues on Cocaine Addiction Vaccine
Dr. Ron Crystal, a researcher at Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Medical College, is working on a vaccine to treat cocaine addiction. The inspiration for the project came to Dr. Crystal in an...
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Will 12 Step Rehab Work for Me? The 12 step method is considered by many addiction experts to be the best help for long-term addiction recovery. However, it is not without controversy. Keep reading to...
View ArticleConstruction Workers Most Likely to Use Opioids, Cocaine
Construction Workers Most Likely to Use Opioids, Cocaine Researchers at the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at NYU College of Global Public Health have released the results of a study....
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