Drug Abuse: Brain Implant Aims to Stifle Drug Highs

Published July 29, 2013

Brain implant aims to stifle drug highs
Filed under: Drug Abuse

( Case Western Reserve University ) Researchers at Case Western Reserve and Illinois State universities are investigating what happens in an animal brain when drugs of abuse provide no high. They are developing and testing a closed-loop system that detects changes in dopamine levels caused by a drug then suppresses reward-related signaling associated with a high. A $ 390,000 National Institute on …
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Treatment for Alcohol Abuse Drops in Pregnant Women, While Drug Treatment Rises
Filed under: Drug Abuse

The percentage of pregnant women in substance abuse treatment programs who were being treated for alcohol abuse decreased between 2000 and 2010, according to a new government report. During the same decade, the percentage of pregnant women in these programs being treated for drug abuse rose.
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Novus Medical Detox Warns: Public Influenced by Rx Drug Commercials
Filed under: Drug Abuse

Americans are learning about prescription drugs not only from their doctors, but through television commercials – Novus warns that this advertising could possibly spur an increase in prescription drug abuse across the nation. (PRWeb July 29, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10918029.htm
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