by Leigh Anne Kelley, Virginia Tech The number of quit attempts represent adjusted, estimated marginal means for each substance, averaged across levels of substance use disorder severity. Credit: Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Addiction Recovery Research Center Relapse is common when someone is trying to quit, regardless of whether they’re giving up opioids or alcohol or cigarettes....
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Pharmacists could be frontline fighters in battle against opioid epidemic
by Victoria Tutag Lehr, The Conversation When you stop at your local pharmacy to pick up a toothbrush or an antacid, soon you may also be able to buy an over-the-counter drug to reverse an opioid overdose. The lifesaving drug, naloxone, currently requires a prescription, but it may become available as an over-the-counter purchase in...
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Using Cryo-EM Tech, Scientists Discover New Anti-Addiction Option
Posted Today There is still a lot researchers don’t know about how the brain works and what characteristics about it make people more or less likely to develop problems like depression and substance abuse. But, they have learned something called the serotonin transport gene plays a key role in the latter question. Recently, scientists depended...