Mandating outpatient treatment for certain people with severe mental illness, while controversial, results in substantial cost savings by cutting hospitalizations and increasing outpatient care, according to a financial… read more.
People with mental illnesses are more than seven times more likely to usecannabis weekly compared to people without a mental illness, according to researchers from the Centre for Addiction… read more.
Researchers found that dopamine levels in a part of the brain called the striatum were lower in people who smoke more cannabis and those who began taking the drug at… read more.
Last year the UK government reclassified cannabis from a class C to a class B drug, partly out of concerns that cannabis, especially the more potent varieties, may… read more.
The scientific community have long debated the causal relationship betweencannabis use and the risk factor for psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. Both sides of this controversial subject are put… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Lexapro (escitalopram), which is used to treat depression and anxiety, appears to improve a stress-related heart condition in persons with stable coronary… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that finasteride appears to reduce alcohol consumption in some men. The results were published online on June 13, 2013 by Alcoholism:… read more.
More than 80 per cent of youth who die by suicide had some form of contact with the health care system in the year before their death, according… read more.
Positive findings differ from previous studies on hysterectomy, heart disease risk. Having a hysterectomy with or without ovary removal in mid-life does not increase a woman’s risk of… read more.
Abuse of common anesthetic has ‘rapid downhill course’, reports Journal of Addiction Medicine. Abuse of the anaesthesia drug propofol is a “rapidly progressive form of substance dependence” that… read more.
Advocates and pain management groups aired concerns recently over a citizen petition to change opioid labeling during the first of a 2-day FDA hearing.
Study says early intervention is key to successful treatment of gambling. To successfully treat pathological gambling, you need to intervene at an early stage, according to Susana Jiménez-Murcia… read more.
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