More evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis
...ed psychotic effects just as strong as if they had smoked cannabis. These findings, highly unexpected in such a controlled environment, are published today in the peer-reviewed, Open Access journal BMC Psychiatry. Dr Bernard Favrat and colleagues, from the Institut Universitaire de Medecine Legale in Switz...Doctor suggested cannabis for pain relief, says one in six medicinal users in the UKMUHC study
...uggested it. The majority of users (82 per cent) smoked the drug. Other methods included eating it (43 per cent) and making cannabis tea (28 per cent). 916 reported average usage levels, with the largest percentage (27 per cent) using one to two grams per day. Only two per cent used 10 or more grams a d...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
..., the drug can be injected, snorted, swallowed and smoked to provide users with a sense of euphoria. Drug effects can last for up to 12 hours. Frequent use is associated with serious health problems, including memory loss, aggression, psychotic behavior, and potential heart and brain damage. The Skaggs Inst...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...t their pregnancies, including whether or not they smoked cigarettes either before or after giving birth. An...ys. "The kids who lived with mothers or others who smoked developed more severe RSV infections than the kids who were not exposed to cigarette smoke." The stu...Medical technologies may hinder rather than help newborn survival
...thers were on average 4.5cm taller, 5.1kg heavier, smoked less and were more educated than those who gave birth in 1982. The women's mean number of antenatal visits increased as did the proportion whose initial visit was in their first trimester. 97% of all women had at least one ultrasound scan and 31% had...Study examines racial differences among children to environmental tobacco smoke exposure
...ut differences in additives to cigarettes commonly smoked by African Americans, such as menthol, could also explain the observed racial differences." The study will be published in the March issue of Environmental Health Perspectives and is currently available online at http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/ The study...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
... with a history of regular smoking and a child who smoked at least weekly by 12th grade. The students in the study were part of the landmark Hutchinson Smoking Prevention Project, the largest and longest school-based intervention trial ever conducted in smoking-prevention research, involving nearly 8,400 st...UCLA study shows that people drink less alcohol as they age
...place among married males with less education, who smoked and were born in earlier years. There are a number of reasons for the overall age-related decline in drinking, Moore said. For instance, some people simply stop drinking as they age and others become too ill to drink. "Another reason is people cut do...Regular cannabis may increase risk of stroke in young users
...sionally. The first incident occurred after he had smoked a considerable amount of cannabis combined with th...rained from using cannabis for 18 months, but then smoked a reasonable amount in one go, which he combined with three or four drinks. This was followed by an ...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...males, 64 of whom were non-smokers. The 55 smokers smoked at least 10 cigarettes, but fewer than two packs, per day for at least one year. Thus, these brain metabolism findings apply to most smokers. Nicotine was administered by a patch. Potkin, who holds the Robert R. Sprague Chair in Brain Imaging, is dir...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...mbers expected to soar as women, who traditionally smoked far less than men, take up the habit and as Chinese youth begin to experiment with tobacco at increasingly earlier ages. So the need for tobacco use research along the Pacific Rim is greater than ever." The new center's studies will build upon earlie...Marijuana use affects blood flow in brain even after abstinence
ST. PAUL, Minn. People who smoked marijuana had changes in the blood flow in their b...ovement for heavy marijuana users. The light users smoked two to 15 joints per week. The moderate users smoked 17 to 70 joints per week, and the heavy users s...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...by the 7.5 years young baby boomers typically have smoked shows that the average baby boomer has spent more than $5,300 during their adult life on this habit. This figure is roughly right between the amount net worth falls for light smokers vs. heavy smokers, he said. Zagorsky noted that the participants in...Marijuana associated with same respiratory symptoms as tobacco
...h. Seventy seven percent of marijuana smokers also smoked tobacco. The analysis statistically controlled for the number of cigarettes smoked per day. Individuals who smoked both marijuana and tobacco had increased rates of respiratory sympto...Tobacco-company-sponsored parties with free cigarettes may encourage students to start smoking
...to be current cigarette smokers (defined as having smoked a cigarette in the past 30 days) than students who...ho had not. In contrast, in the 2,334 students who smoked regularly before age 19, there was no significant difference in current smoking prevalence between t...Arsenic ingestion from well water associated with increased risk of lung cancer
...med well water with the highest arsenic levels and smoked for more than 25 pack-years had a more than 11-fold risk of lung cancer. "Approximately 32 percent to 55 percent of lung cancer cases were estimated to be attributable to the combined effect of cigarette smoking and ingested arsenic, depending on the...Overweight, boozy and depressed: Why we need healthy new year's resolutions
... 1970 had none at all. Fewer born in 1958 and 1970 smoked in their 30s than those from1946, but the number of men smokers had not dropped a lot. Better educated people are less likely to smoke 47 per cent of men born in 1970 who had no qualifications were smokers compared with just 20 per cent of those wh...News briefs from the Journal CHEST, December 2004
...ates from 1980 to 1998. The percentage of men who smoked daily was reduced from 58% to 28%, and their respiratory disease rate significantly declined as well. The smoking rate of women, which had increased from 12% to 20% from 1960 to 1973, leveled off at approximately 20% following the passage of this ac...Smokers' lung cancer risk identified in CT screening study
...ancer similar to that of a smoker under age 50 who smoked three packs a day for 20 years. Claudia I. Hensch..., we can now predict, by age, by how much has been smoked or when a smoker has quit, what is the likelihood of developing lung cancer," said Dr. Henschke, a p...... 12th grade, nearly a quarter of all students have smoked in the past 30 days, and about 16 percent are regular, daily smokers. The study's goals include understanding the pathways that contribute to teen smoking, determining how much time it takes to become dependent, and identifying who is most vuln...