Pick Your Poison

Published June 16, 2013

Pick your poison

Filed under: causes of drug addiction

However, most of them also cause drowsiness, euphoria, nausea, constipation, confusion and slowed breathing. Morphine and Heroin are highly addictive, however the rest are also addictive. All of these drugs (when abused) have caused unconsciousness, …
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Drug blunts cocaine addiction in mice

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A drug once tested as a possible treatment for Parkinson's disease appears to reduce cocaine cravings in addicted mice. Researchers are hopeful the drug will become the first approved medication to treat cocaine addiction in people. (Credit: iStockphoto).
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Health law to open access to addiction treatment

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FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — For patients admitted to Tara Treatment Center, the hope is to recover from the disease that shattered their lives. Alcoholism has cost them their jobs, drug abuse has torn them from their friends and their families, or their …
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