Drivers with type-1 diabetes report increased incidence of car crashes
...hyperactivity disorder, those with sleep apnea and abusers of alcohol. Cox recently received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the additional effects of hypoglycemia and driving. He is currently working with mathematician, Boris Kovatchev, to find an algorithm that can pred...UI Researchers urge advances in meth abuse treatment
...d a drug that could specifically block the effects abusers seek from meth. The UI review article was supported in part by a NAIDA grant. In addition to Hall, UI researchers involved in the review included lead author Margaret Cretzmeyer, research assistant in the UI School of Social Work; Mary Vaughan Sarraz...Diuretic may help increase brain blood flow in cocaine addicts
...ed with decreased brain blood flow in some cocaine abusers are the results of major stokes such as paralysis, loss of ability to speak, severe cognitive impairment and in the worst cases death. The patients in these studies with reduced blood flow to their brain had significant impairment in thinking, conce...Results from first clinical trial using GVG to treat addiction
...e Mexican federal government. Twenty daily cocaine abusers who expressed an interest in breaking their drug dependence were enrolled and given an escalating daily dose of GVG, starting with one gram twice a day, and reaching two grams twice a day by day seven of the trial. The subjects were treated as outpat...Baclofen holds promise for cocaine treatment
...ication baclofen holds promise for helping cocaine abusers overcome their addiction, a study by a UCLA Neurop...ffers new hope to hundreds of thousands of cocaine abusers who struggle with addiction." According to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Ad...Methamphetamine withdrawal associated with brain changes seen in mood disorders
...ose metabolism in the brains of 17 methamphetamine abusers who had stopped using the drug 47 days before thei... the study, and 18 nonabusers. The methamphetamine abusers averaged a 10-year history of drug abuse that included consuming an average of 4 grams of methamphet...One-shot addiction treatment shows promise
...s. In a residential laboratory setting the heroin abusers each had their narcotics abruptly stopped and was instead given a depot injection of 58 mg of buprenorphine. For the next 6 weeks the patients were assessed repeatedly for signs and symptoms of the opioid withdrawal syndrome. In addition, the volu...Study finds combination therapy successful for treating depression
...MEANS: These findings indicate that depressed drug abusers are able to successfully participate in conventional treatment for depression, and for those who are adherent, depression remission is not uncommon. However, most mental health and drug treatment programs do not provide integrated treatment for their...Co-occurring disorders increase risk of suicide attempt by adolescents
...und that generally, both male and female substance abusers who attempt suicide begin taking drugs at an early age and have more symptoms of psychiatric and substance use disorders than adolescents who do not attempt suicide. Dr. Thomas Kelly and colleagues collected data from 188 females and 315 males, aged ...Undertreatment spurs new arrests among drug ofenders diverted under California's Proposition 36
...s." Farabee noted that the increased flow of drug abusers into treatment as a result of SACPA coupled with severe budget constraints throughout the state pose difficult challenges for the program administrators at the county level. "Our findings encompass only the early months of Proposition 36. New program...Humble Planaria worm offers ideal model for drug withdrawal research
...esearchers hope to discover what happens when drug abusers who take more than one drug-a common practice-go i... Temple University School of Pharmacy. Typically, abusers take several drugs together to multiply the pleasurable effects or manage the undesirable effects-fo...Drinking and spousal abuse by male US Army soldiers
...rised all active-duty, male, enlisted Army spousal abusers identified in the Army's Central Registry (ACR) who had also completed an Army Health Risk Appraisal Survey (HRA) between the years of 1991 and 1998 (n=9,534). Their data were compared with that of 21,786 "controls" who were matched on gender, rank,...ER patients with substance abuse treatment need incur higher health care costs
...to the importance of identifying them as substance abusers -- either for a brief intervention or to refer them to substance abuse treatment as appropriate. The emergency department visit itself can represent a teachable moment for a patient." The researchers estimated that 27 percent of adult emergency depa...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...rent ability to suppress the immune system, making abusers more vulnerable to diseases such as HIV. The new study is the first to suggest that the drug can engage the body's defense system to attack methamphetamine in such a way that makes users inclined to use more of the drug, the researchers say. Their st...