CU Science Update 28 – Cocaine Addiction


 

CU Science Update 28 – Cocaine Addiction – How the brain processes information could help us understand the mechanism behind cocaine addiction. CU’s Institute of Behavioural Genetics is using state-of-the-art technology to gain insight into how psychostimulant drugs alter our brains. The results of this work could one day help addicts recover fully from their dependency on drugs. CU Science Update’s Angelica Kalika met with Dr. Don Cooper, Associate Professor in CU’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience to learn more about his lab’s investigation into cocaine addiction. Hosted by Joanna Merrill. Produced by the University of Colorado at Boulder Journalism and Mass Communication students.

 

In False Creek, a Window into How Candidates Are Chosen

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… controversial style (buying crack cocaine for a drug addict and giving money to a prostitute to keep her off the street), and the poorly-conceived big policies he pushed as mayor (Eco-Density and the Chronic Addiction Substitution Treatment) set …
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Parents jailed for toddler's methadone death

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The trial had heard that Dent, who had been addicted to heroin since she was 16 and also used cocaine, had been prescribed methadone to help her overcome the addiction but had struggled to kick the habit. The judge accepted that Binfield's culpability …
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Acupuncture for Drug & Alcohol Withdrawal – New Study

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In yet another study of human subjects conducted at Yale University it was discovered that acupuncture is significantly effective in the treatment of cocaine addiction. The subjects were much less likely to return to cocaine use if they had received …
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Chewing tobacco use high in Montana; Great American Spit Out is this week

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Nicotine has been classified by the National Institute of Drug Abuse as an addictive drug because it meets the same criteria for addictiveness as other well-known drugs, such as heroin and cocaine. Besides addiction, the health effects of smokeless …
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