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Cocaine addiction is a chronic disorder with a high rate of relapse for which no effective treatment is currently available. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm and the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) recently demonstrated that two gene mutations involved in the conformation of nicotinic receptors in the brain appear to play a

Fox News Flash top headlines for Sept. 9 Fox News Flash top headlines for Sept. 9 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com A 38-year-old man in Malta who was brought to the hospital for a suspected drug overdose later died, with doctors noting that he had a known history of cocaine use that

Bile acids that aid fat digestion are also found to reduce the rewarding properties of cocaine use, according to a study publishing on July 26 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by India Reddy, Nicholas Smith, and Robb Flynn of Vanderbilt University, Aurelio Galli of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and colleagues. The results

The UK is Europe’s cocaine capital and also has the highest number of drug overdose deaths and people who inject heroin, reveals report on the continent’s drug use Four per cent of people in the UK aged 16-34 have taken cocaine in the past year UK also has the highest level of drug overdoses and

In a study investigating the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for drug addiction, researchers at Medical University of South Carolina are the first to demonstrate that the noninvasive brain stimulation technique can dampen brain activity in response to drug cues in chronic alcohol users and chronic cocaine users. The findings are published in Biological

Doctors are calling for heroin, cocaine and cannabis to be made LEGAL: Experts argue users should be able to seek help without the threat of jail Royal College of Physicians, which represents 26,000 medics, supports the call It believes drug addiction ‘must be considered a health issue first and foremost’ The body claims illegal-drug users