Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine Addiction Treatment? Changing Brain Loop Could Break the Drug Cycle

Cocaine Addiction Treatment? Changing Brain Loop Could Break the Drug Cycle Previous research has established significant brain differences in people with cocaine addictions. In particular, cocaine addiction causes long-term changes to the nucleus accumbens, the region of the brain… Continue reading

Addiction Injection: The Mission to Immunise Drug Users Against Dependency

...  injection: the mission to immunise drug users against dependency As the scientists hoped, these mice display no signs of a drug-induced high because they have been injected with an anti-cocaine vaccine: a shot that can numb cocaine addiction.… Continue reading

Drug Addicts Flock to Dealer's Car Like "Children Chasing an Ice Cream Van"

...  addicts flock to dealer's car like "children chasing an ice cream van" THIS is the shocking moment dozens of addicts flock towards a drug dealer's car in broad daylight like “children chasing an ice cream van”. The CCTV images… Continue reading

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: New Issue

...  of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: New Issue Adding Integrative Meditation with Ear Acupressure to Outpatient Treatment of Cocaine Addiction: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study, by Kevin W Chen, Christine C. Berger, Devang Gandhi, et al. Effects of Spiritual… Continue reading

Cocaine Addiction Causes 'feed-forward' Loop

Cocaine addiction causes 'feed-forward' loop … that we study, interrupting this loop disrupts the process that seems to occur with long-term exposure to drugs,” says Robison. Robison says the study also found signs of the same feed-forward loop in the… Continue reading

A Sportsman Addict Needs a Doctor

...  sportsman addict needs a doctor A handsome man, loved by team-mates, Maynard was also a cocaine addict. The inquest heard that he had been high on the night he died on a Tube line, his hair revealing residues of… Continue reading