Communities, Police Fight Narco-Trafficking
... nation have confiscated nearly 22.8 tons of cocaine, about 377,000 doses of crack, destroyed nearly four million marijuana plants and seized about US$ 10.5 million in cash proceeds from drug trafficking between 2010 … Read more on Inside Costa… Continue reading
Cruz, Paul: A Menagerie of Misinformation
... Paul: A Menagerie of Misinformation Behavior therapy is the cornerstone of drug addiction treatments, particularly for those cases where FDA-approved medications do not exist (e.g., cocaine). Unfortunately, such treatments have been only partially successful, calling for additional … Read… Continue reading
Discovery Could Yield Treatment for Cocaine Addicts
... Could Yield Treatment for Cocaine Addicts Robison said the study was particularly compelling because it found signs of the same feed-forward loop in the brains of people who died while addicted to cocaine. "The increased production of these proteins… Continue reading
Psychiatrists Have New Term for Compulsive Gambling: Behavioral Addiction
... Have New Term for Compulsive Gambling: Behavioral Addiction Psychiatrists think they know the answer: Compulsive or pathological gambling, they say, is similar to a drug addiction—just without a drug. They will soon have a new …. She was… Continue reading
News, Briefly
... Local Crime and Court Roundup: The two candidates for Supreme Court will debate … There was no word on what his Wisconsin crimes were. The courts have no record of them, since Ohio was the only state where Treesh… Continue reading
SAFE Encourages a Drug-Free Junior Prom
SAFE Encourages A Drug-Free Junior Prom Showing slides of pills, cigarette butts, alcohol, weed and cocaine, Ortiz moved forward warning that these narcotics were a dead end road. “It will just move you closer to death,” he said. “Everyday …… Continue reading