‘Cocaine’

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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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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Concepts And Definitions In Drugs Addiction

Monday, February 8th, 2010

When we speak of addiction as substance addiction.

Heroin addiction is a problem that causes great alarm.

It is considered drug addiction as a disease and not going away because:

is good business
Many people cannot live without drugs
The drug has been around since man exists.

Many addicts do not realize that addiction is harmful. (more…)

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Preventive Role of Primary Cares

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

To prevent an increase in drug consumption and hence of these diseases, Dr. Jose Angel Arbesú, coordinator SEMERGEN Mental Health, said the primary care physician has an important role in the prevention, detection and treatment of addicts. (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 air of Madrid and Barcelona contains molecules of cocaine

Monday, January 18th, 2010

molecules of cocaine

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

function in the brain

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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The Treatment of Addiction to Heroin

Monday, January 11th, 2010

The Treatment of Addiction to Heroin

It is difficult to escape the clutches of drugs, but not impossible. Thanks to improved treatments, the numbers of former drug users have increased. Two thirds of those addicted to heroin and crack (smoked form of cocaine) who undergo therapy or consumption drop significantly reduced, according to a study on the effectiveness of cessation programs in England.

The work, published in The Lancet, shows the evolution of more than 14,000 patients treated for at least six months. The numbers of abstinence during the 28 days before the last clinical review were high: 42% of heroin addicts and 57% of crack users.

A not insignificant percentage of those who failed to leave the substances were able, at least, reduce their consumption: 29% of those who were ‘hooked’ on heroin and 8% of those who smoked cocaine. (more…)

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