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Cocaine, Natural Thing in the World ???

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

It was used to be a glamorous drug, today is the use of cocaine has become quite normal. Especially in their twenties experts show that the drug is very popular. In the United Kingdom the number of young people leave their help cocaine addiction in the past three years nearly doubled. The cessation clinics flows.

Really good you do not have to look for cocaine. The exclusivity is off and that creates a substantial increase in the number of users. Although cocaine is indeed a hard drug use now appears to be similar to that of cannabis.

Source: HLN

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The Develop of the Vaccine

Friday, February 19th, 2010

LONDON – Scientists have developed a vaccine that could help Cocaine Junkie of their addiction. Testing in the United States have shown that half of the drug addicts who received half years of the drug could not touch. That the British newspaper The Guardian reported yesterday.

The TA-CD vaccine, developed by a British pharmaceutical company, prevents users get high when they take cocaine. And that feeling is, in the company exactly the reason people use cocaine. (more…)

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Possible Vaccine against Cocaine Addiction

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

A vaccine that helps you wean cocaine, which would still be a nice development. Two American scientists are working at this moment.

The vaccine needs to stimulate the immune system to attack the drug. Normal speaking, our immune system drugs such as cocaine and not recognize them no antibodies.

This is because a cocaine molecule is too small to be noticed. The vaccine must ensure that the molecule increases, so the immune system drug is recognized.

The vaccine is currently being clinically tested. The research couple hopes a few months to get permission to test larger scale.

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Lady Gaga admits heavy Cocaine Addiction

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The American singer Lady Gaga confession in News of the World that in her student years she was severely addicted to cocaine, and LSD. The eccentric lady behind ‘Poker Face’ even thought she would not survive.
Lady Gaga sniffed daily for inspiration. “I wanted the artists to whom I was crazy, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol. I thought that picking up their behavior was the only way to achieve this” says the singer.

Gaga reportedly kicks off with the help of a deceased family song. “The spirit of my aunt who died on her 19th, is in me. She was a painter and poet. I know now that my job is her life’s work to finish.”

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After the Cocaine Addiction Back on the Ice

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Big news of the APPM-skating team: in a press release, the appointment of Jan Ykema unveiled as assistant coach. Perhaps even more remarkable is that the statement more than his turbulent private life refers to the Olympic silver in 1988, the 500 meter of Calgary.

Thus, the cocaine addiction of Fries to have lasted fifteen years and “his real estate agent and much more” through ruined. Ykema used, all problems, forced a long time to accommodate his car, his home town in Harlingen, we know now. (more…)

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The cocaine is carried in the genes

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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Like the strip to the mountain goat, some people have a small mutation in their DNA that predisposes them to cocaine addiction once they try it. Although this is a very preliminary finding, a team of researchers has found a gene that could explain why one in 10 people taking cocaine become dependent on this drug.

“The important thing is that we have found a first gene linked to vulnerability to cocaine addiction,” he explained IMABIS Foundation in Malaga, one of the Spanish scientists who collaborated in this study.

Although the brain is still today a great mystery, the continuing investigation of the body sheds little flashes of light on its operation. One thing we know is that drugs can give pleasure and addiction to act on the reward circuits. Cocaine, in particular, work by increasing the concentration of dopamine (the pleasure neurotransmitter) in the neurons of this system, thereby strengthening its consumption. (more…)

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The skin also suffers the effects of cocaine

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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Skin ulcers, itching, blisters, hives, rashes, warts on the nasal mucosa. These skin changes may be triggered because of the consumption of cocaine addiction. If a patient has chronic skin lesions and shows a strange and delusional behavior, should be an overall drug tests to confirm whether the use of this drug is the cause, as recommended by an article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

“However, they must also be completely excluded other triggers of these skin reactions, even when they are illegal substances during testing, since a positive drug test does not always indicate the source of injuries,” warn the authors of the paper, conducted in the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota (USA). (more…)

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A genetic variant associated with cocaine-induced paranoia

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

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One study suggests that the finding may shed light on the physiology of paranoia in general.

U.S. researchers. UU. have identified genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts.

In their study of almost 4,000 people of African and European ancestry, the team of Yale University and the Faculty of Medicine at Boston University examined an area of the genome had previously been shown that it was linked to cocaine dependence and the paranoia induced by this drug.

The researchers conducted a genetic analysis of eleven variants of the gene-endomanosidasa (NSAIDs), which metabolize complex carbohydrates. They found that nine of the variants were related to cocaine-induced paranoia among African Americans and six variants were identified among those of European origin.

Variants were also associated in this area of the genome with cocaine dependence. (more…)

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The air of Madrid and Barcelona contains molecules of cocaine

Monday, January 18th, 2010

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The concentrations are so small that “even breathing would be 1000 years to consume the equivalent dose.

The air of Madrid and Barcelona contains molecules of cocaine, according to a research team comprised of researchers or Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), the Center for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT) and the Catalan Institute for Research Water (ICRA) have developed a method to detect drug for particles in the air in the two cities.

Researchers have analyzed the airborne particles in suspension and have certified the presence of up to five classes of drugs in the two study areas of the cities. Although not clear in which of the two cities has been found more drugs, have indicated that the data “are not representative of the air in two cities, and these were reflected in very specific areas where expected greater consumption.

Thus, the researchers found up to 17 components belonging to five different drugs in both cities, but noted that most of the particles that were found are attributable to cocaine. Components were also found amphetamines, opiates, cannabinoids and lysergic acid. (more…)

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Cocaine change the way genes function in the brain

Friday, January 15th, 2010

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Prolonged exposure to cocaine can cause permanent changes in how genes are turned on and off in the brain, a finding that may lead more effective treatments for many types of addictions, researchers estadoundienses.

A study in mice conducted by the team of Ian Maze, of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, found that chronic cocaine addiction prevented a specific enzyme performs his work of suppression of some genes in the brain circuits for pleasure.

This effect made even more longed rodents drugs.

The research helps explain how cocaine use changes the brain, said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study published in the journal Science.

“This discovery is enabling a new understanding of how the repeated use of drugs in the long term modifies the function of neurons,” Volkow said in a telephone interview. (more…)

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