Tackling Pain and Addiction
Tackling Pain and Addiction
The company's foray into addiction treatment may offer better compensation than its schizophrenia offerings in the long term. Alkermes' Vivitrol treats heroin addicts and alcoholics by blocking receptors in the brain, reducing the user's desire for …
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Turning to Heroin After Painkiller Abuse
The NSDUH gathered drug, alcohol and tobacco use data from people in the US ages 12 and older. The researchers were mainly concerned with people just starting to use heroin rather than long-term users, so they limited the study to people ages 12 to 49.
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Teenage cannabis users are more vulnerable to heavy drug addiction and …
'While it is clear that more systematic scientific studies are needed to understand the long-term impact of adolescent cannabis exposure on brain and behaviour, the current evidence suggests that it has a far-reaching influence on adult addictive …
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