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Anti-Smoking Drugs Alter Brain to Curb Cravings, Two Studies Suggest

New research indicates smoking-cessation drugs may work by changing the way our brains react to seeing others smoke.

Specialty 'Bath Salts' Linked to Hospitalizations, Suicides

Alarming numbers of adolescents and others are ending up in emergency rooms and mental hospitals after using "fake cocaine" -- a powder legally sold as bath salts.

Early-life brain inflammation may increase susceptibility to drug addiction in adulthood

ScienceDaily (2010-11-15) -- An episode of brain inflammation early in life may lead to long-lasting changes in the brain that increase the risk of developing drug addiction during adulthood, a new animal study found. Brain inflammation is most often caused by head injury or a viral infection such as encephalitis or meningitis.

Year-long opiate substitution for drug misusers has 85 percent chance of cutting deaths

Year-long opiate substitution for drug misusers has 85 percent chance of cutting deaths
ScienceDaily (2010-10-28) -- Giving people opiate substitution treatment to help with their drug addiction can lead to a 85 percent plus chance of reducing mortality, according to a new study.

Drug that helps adults addicted to opioid drugs also relieves withdrawal symptoms in newborns

In the October 6th online issue of Addiction, the researchers say that using buprenorphine in a dozen addicted infants was both safe and successful and reduced days of treatment by 40 percent, compared to use of morphine in 12 other infants randomized to this treatment. The difference was 23 days of treatment versus 38 days.