Drug Addiction an Urgent Priority Among Mental Health Professionals: Opinion
Drug addiction an urgent priority among mental health professionals: Opinion
Opioid use beyond three or four months can cause dependency. I often see short-term memory deficits among adolescents or adults who have used opioids for one year or more. Drug addiction — for decades a pressing world health issue — is now an urgent …
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Structural and functional changes that cocaine cause in the brain favour addiction
These changes favour addiction. The objective of a project headed by Alfonso Barrós Loscertales of the Neuropsychology and Functional Imaging Group at the Universitat Jaume I in the frame of the Spanish National Plan on Drugs (Plan Nacional sobre …
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Zohydro, The Latest Opioid Painkiller: How The FDA May Be Catalyzing Drug …
In case you haven't heard, the U.S. is currently going through a prescription drug epidemic, caused by an amalgamation of various factors. Drug users' increased tolerance, inconsistent efforts to control the drugs' spread, and unnecessary prescribing …
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