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Anthrax Alert For Heroin Users In London The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and NHS London have confirmed that a drug injecting heroin user has tested positive for anthrax and is being treated in a London hospital. This is the first case of anthrax seen in an injecting drug user in England since similar cases were first seen in Scotland in December 2009. Nineteen cases have so far been confirmed in Scotland... ...more	07 Feb 2010
Risk Of Addiction Increased By Cocaine Or Ecstasy Consumption During Adolescence Exposure to ecstasy or cocaine during adolescence increases the "reinforcing effects" that make people vulnerable to developing an addiction. This is the main conclusion of a research team from the University of Valencia (UV), which has shown for the first time how these changes persist into adulthood... ...more	05 Feb 2010
New Research Gives Insight To The Frequency Of 'Doctor Shopping' Occurring Within Prescription Monitoring Programs Research presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting provides early published data analyzing information gathered from California's prescription monitoring program, known as the Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES)... ...more	05 Feb 2010
Heavy Night At Home Or A Tipple On The Town: Does Where We Drink Affect Our Attitude To Alcohol? UK Leading experts from across Britain's 'binge-drinking' debate will meet at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on Wednesday 10 February to discuss whether we need to recognise the places where people drink as a significant influence on their behaviour... ...more	04 Feb 2010
The Prevention Of Psychiatric Patient Suicides Between 1997 and 2006, 38% of out-of-clinic suicides by mental health patients were carried out by people absent without leave from the hospital. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry suggest that measures to improve the ward environment or prevent patients from leaving psychiatric wards without staff agreement could avoid up to 50 suicide deaths every year... ...more	03 Feb 2010
Gene Variation Makes Alcoholism Less Likely In Some Survivors Of Sexual Abuse Exposure to severe stress early in life increases the risk of alcohol and drug addiction. Yet surprisingly, some adults sexually abused as children - and therefore at high risk for alcohol problems - carry gene variants that protect them from heavy drinking and its effects, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis... ...more	03 Feb 2010
ACE Launches Multimedia Campaign To Support Inhalant.org And The Prevention Of Inhalant Abuse The Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE) is launching a new public service announcement campaign to support its http://www.inhalant.org website, and its ongoing efforts to reach out to parents and children about inhalant abuse... ...more	03 Feb 2010
Some States Mull Requiring Prescription For Meth Ingredients "State and local efforts to thwart methamphetamine production by further limiting consumer access to a popular decongestant are pitting law enforcement against pharmacists and patients," USA Today reports... ...more	02 Feb 2010
Exciting New Activities May Help Prevent Relapse In Cocaine Addiction The brain's innate interest in the new and different may help trump the power of addictive drugs, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. In controlled experiments, novelty drew cocaine-treated rats away from the place they got cocaine... ...more	02 Feb 2010
Hunger For Stimulation Driven By Dopamine In The Brain According To New Brain Research Our need for stimulation and dopamine's action upon the brain are connected, which explains why people who constantly crave stimulation are in danger of addictive behaviour such as drug abuse and gambling... ...more	02 Feb 2010
Obama Administration Issues Rules Requiring Parity In Treatment Of Mental, Substance Use Disorders The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury today jointly issued new rules providing parity for consumers enrolled in group health plans who need treatment for mental health or substance use disorders... ...more	31 Jan 2010
Fatality Rates Among Young Drug Users A Cause For Concern A paper by a University of Hertfordshire academic due to be published tomorrow (29 January 2010), reports that excess ecstasy-related death rates in young users is a cause for concern... ...more	30 Jan 2010
One In Ten Jobless Young People 'Driven To Drugs Or Alcohol', Survey Finds Older teenagers and young adults who are out of work face poorer health and lower happiness, with one in 10 claiming that unemployment drove them to drugs or alcohol, according to new research. A Princes Trust study, based on interviews with over 2,000 unemployed 16 to 25 year olds, also found out-of-work young people were more likely to feel ashamed, rejected and unloved... ...more	29 Jan 2010
FDA Cautions Drug Makers About Potential Abuse The Los Angeles Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration "this week released a draft of voluntary guidelines to assist drug makers in figuring out which compounds should be placed under the Controlled Substances Act... ...more	29 Jan 2010
Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings May Reduce Depression Symptoms One of many reasons that attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings helps people with alcohol use disorders stay sober appears to be alleviation of depression. A team of researchers has found that study participants who attended AA meetings more frequently had fewer symptoms of depression - along with less drinking - than did those with less AA participation... ...more	29 Jan 2010
Improving The Eating Skills And Nutritional Status Of Older People With Dementia. The study, which was published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and funded by the National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan, tested two separate intervention methods to assess the eating patterns of dementia patients in Taiwan. Loss of memory and problems with judgement in dementia patients can cause difficulties in relation to eating and nutrition... ...more	29 Jan 2010
Nurses: Mandatory Code Needed To Tackle Alcohol Harm, UK The Royal College of Nursing welcomed a new Department of Health campaign to combat excessive drinking as it responded to news from the Office of National Statistics that the number of deaths caused by alcohol consumption is continuing to rise... ...more	29 Jan 2010
Omeros Announces National Institute On Drug Abuse's Support For Phase 2 Clinical Study In Addiction Program Omeros Corporation (Nasdaq: OMER) announced that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is providing support for the Company's Addiction program. NIDA will fund substantially all of the costs of a Phase 2 clinical study to be conducted by New York State Psychiatric Institute researchers... ...more	29 Jan 2010
Alcohol Increases Women's Risk Of Intimate Partner Violence Alcohol increases the risk of violence in couples - especially violence both to and by the female partner. A new study of couples found that experienced intimate partner violence found 30.2 percent reported alcohol use before or during the event. Severe partner violence was more than twice as likely when the woman drank alcohol, said study co-author Raul Caetano, M.D... ...more	29 Jan 2010
Government Of Canada Invests In Research To Help Prevent Violence Three new regional research centres that will study violence and ways to prevent it will receive almost $6 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, made the announcement at a national roundtable that brought together leading Canadian researchers on violence, gender and health research... ...more	29 Jan 2010
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