Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
... helps children of incarcerated womenand substance abusers attend parochial or private schools. Vigilante andFlanigan are physicians in the Brown University School of Medicine based at TheMiriam Hospital....Differences in human brain chemistry may account for different responses to stimulants
...vels of these receptors and yet were not stimulant abusers indicatesthat other factors besides low D2 levels are also necessary to create a realvulnerability to drug abuse," says Dr. Volkow....Is drug abuse, not brutality, behind some deaths in custody?
...compared brain tissue taken at autopsy fromcocaine abusers who died of ED with tissue from people killed by cocaineoverdoses. They found that the ED patients had a defect in the brain proteinthat mops up the neurotransmitter dopamine, which surges each time a dose ofcocaine is taken. In the overdose ...... to potential treatment of deficits in former drug abusers as well as potential drug deterrents in adolescents and young adults." To mimic the "binge/crash" pattern of drug abuse in humans, Castner gave primates twice-daily injections of chronic amphetamine (AMPH), five days per week for six weeks. The AMPH......team administered the vaccine to 34 former cocaine abusers living in a residential treatment facility. The vaccine, TA-CD, is designed to generate drug-specific antibodies, which bind to cocaine and prevent it from traveling to the brain from the bloodstream. This neutralizes its psychoactive effect. "The ...Methamphetamine abuse linked to long-term damage to brain cells
...ls, which act to support neurons. "Methamphetamine abusers showed increases of 11 percent and 13 percent in levels of these markers compared with normal individuals," Dr. Ernst said. "This suggests an increased number or size of glial cells as a reaction to the injurious effects of methamphetamine." The res...Alcohol and drug treatment among HMO patients
... middle class, we can see that Caucasian substance abusers tend to get in trouble with alcohol, and African-American substance abusers tend to get into trouble with drugs. So, a substance abusers' race seems to change their 'substance...Drinking and drugging can be painful
... drugs. People clinically identified as substance abusers have an elevated risk of injury. People who abuse...iated with drug abuse, or whether alcohol and drug abusers have higher injury risks than those who abuse only drugs. If substance abusers have excess injury r...Dosage appears to be a critical factor in cocaine vaccine
...rchers that is designed to block the euphoria drug abusers experience. Of eight patients in the second phase ...lled in the Phase One trial were abstinent cocaine abusers who were confined in a residential drug treatment program. Of that number, 27 completed the full cou...Exploring the brain chemistry of people at risk for alcohol disorders
...em." Lovallo noted that alcohol or other substance abusers tend to have specific kinds of behavior when they are children. "There is a higher prevalence of attention deficit disorder, hyperactive tendencies, rule breaking, and poor response to discipline," he said, "than in a comparable group of non-abusers...Glutathione depletion in chronic alcohol abuse makes lungs vulnerable to life-threatening diseases
...ne levels can be as deadly to the lungs of alcohol abusers as alcohol itself can be to their livers and other organs, says David Guidot, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Guidot will explain how glutathione depletion affects the lungs at a symposium on the cel...Long-term cognitive impairment found in crack-cocaine abusers
...HAT IT MEANS: With approximately 2 million cocaine abusers in the United States, the finding that brain damage resulting in long-term impaired mental and physical functioning can result from its use makesdeveloping and utilizing effective prevention and treatment methods an urgent public health priority....Methadone treatment may improve completion of tuberculosis therapy in injection drug abusers
... that under normal treatment conditions, substance abusers are more likely to miss doses of the TB medication...reventive treatment is less effective in substance abusers than in other TB-positive individuals. In the study conducted by Dr. Steven L. Batki at San Francis...Methamphetamine, cocaine abusers have different patterns of use
...tudies supported by NIDA show that methamphetamine abusers typically use the drug 20 days per month, beginnin...intervals throughout the day. In contrast, cocaine abusers are more likely to exhibit a binge pattern. They use the drug fewer days per month, typically in th...Managing anger, boosting activity helps substance abusers stick with treatment
Encouraging substance abusers to participate in more rewarding activities and manage their negative emotions early in treatment may improve their chances of success, new research suggests. Previous research has repeatedly shown that participants who stick with their treatment pro...Ecstasy may be drug of choice for those trying to cope with lonelienss, study finds
...rategies of coping with it when counseling ecstasy abusers in their teens or young adulthood years. Presentation: "Coping With Loneliness: Young Adult Drug Users," Ami Rokach, Ph.D., Institute for the Study and Treatment of Psychosocial Stress, Toronto, ON, Canada, and Tricia Orzeck, B.S., Adler School of ...UT Southwestern researcher studies causes, treatment of bipolar disease coupled with drug abuse
...0 percent. Bipolar patients who are also substance abusers require increased hospitalization and have poorer psychiatric recovery and treatment response than patients who have bipolar disorder alone, she said. Dr. Saundra Gilfillan, associate professor of psychiatry and medical director of emergency psychiat...Anesthesiologists' substance abuse constant despite efforts
... Booth's survey found that 18 percent of substance abusers were identified by an overdose causing death or a near-death event. The other ways these physicians are discovered are through programs that "match" drugs dispensed with the individual physicians. By tracking these trends over time, it is possible to...NIDA leads research network to improve substance abuse treatment in criminal justice settings
...involved in helping criminal justice-involved drug abusers return to their communitiesas productive, law-abiding members of society. The studies that will be conducted by CJ-DATS will be designed and conducted in three phases over a total of 5 years. The first phase will include the establishment of a Steeri...Chaos theory may help explain patterns of alcohol abuse, studies suggest
...elp. For example, the results suggest that alcohol abusers may show signs of improvement that are really just...y stable, he might be successful, Warren said. But abusers face a lot of pressures that are likely to encourage them to drink a little more. Our results sugges...