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• Aggression, social environment, and internet gaming addiction among Korean adolescents - Yuh J.

  21-02-2019 12:05
  I investigated whether or not aggression and social factors (i.e., family relationships and commitment to school) predict Internet gaming addiction in Korean adolescents, and I examined the mediating role of aggression in the relationship between these var... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• New York to help develop national ratings system for addictions programs

  21-02-2019 11:03
  The state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services announced New York was selected among five states to pilot a new national rating system for addiction treatment providers.
  During the 24-month pilot program, OASAS will work to align the rating system with ongoing initiatives in New York in tandem with Shatterproof, a national nonprofit based in New York that focuses on addictions issues. Massachusetts and Ohio are also participating, with two other states to be annou nced later.Other&h
  
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• New Issue of NIAAA Spectrum is Now Available!

  20-02-2019 13:40
  NIAAA Spectrum is the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's (NIAAA) triannual webzine. With engaging feature articles, short news updates, and colorful graphics,  NIAAA Spectrum offers accessible and relevant information on NIAAA and the alcohol research field.The latest issue is now available.  In This IssueAdvances in Understanding and Addressing Underage Drinking (Source: NIAAA News)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than
  
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• Indivior launches generic version of its Suboxone opioid drug

  20-02-2019 11:53
  British drugmaker Indivior Plc said on Wednesday it had launched a copycat version of its blockbuster opioid addiction drug Suboxone in the United States, just one day after a court decision cleared the way for its rivals to market generic versions of it. (Source: Reuters: Health)
  
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• Indivior launches generic version of opioid drug after losing court battle

  20-02-2019 07:34
  Indivior Plc has launched a copycat of its blockbuster opioid addiction drug in the United States, the British drugmaker said on Wednesday, after losing a long-drawn court battle to prevent entry of generic rivals in its biggest market. (Source: Reuters: Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• You CAN become dependent on Zyrtec and have itchy withdrawals from the allergy drug

  19-02-2019 19:09
  Zyrtech is not addictive, but the bodies histamine receptors can become accustomed to always having it present - and itchy anxious withdrawals are 'absolute hell' - but the label doesn't warn you. (Source: the Mail online | Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• ERs often miss chance to send overdose survivors to addiction treatment programs

  19-02-2019 18:58
  The ability divert ER patients into addiction recovery programs is often lacking. (Source: ABC News: Health)
  
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• US Supreme Court clears way for Indivior opioid generic

  19-02-2019 18:32
  The court's decision to reject Indivior's attempt to block copycats of its opioid addiction med is a win for generic drug maker Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (Source: PharmaManufacturing.com)
  
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• U.S. top court rejects bid to block Indivior opioid drug copycat

  19-02-2019 16:36
  The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to Indivior Plc on Tuesday, clearing the way for a copycat version of the British pharmaceutical firm's lucrative opioid addiction treatment Suboxone Film in a victory for India-based generic drug maker Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. (Source: Reuters: Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Codeine: An Opioid Threat to Kids

  19-02-2019 09:00
  TUESDAY, Feb. 19, 2019 -- Codeine is one of the drugs at the center of the opioid epidemic affecting adults and teens across the United States. There are also concerns about its effects on very young children -- not addiction, but life-threatening... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
  
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• New toolkit for genomic editing holds promise for addiction research

  19-02-2019 00:00
  The scientific world has advanced immeasurably by the science of DNA and genetics. Manipulating gene expression to change the way that cells such as neurons function has helped scientists create very specific tools to use for understanding and developing treatments for human diseases. For human... (Source: NIDA News)
  
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• Monthly buprenorphine injections effective for opioid use disorders

  19-02-2019 00:00
  A newly published study suggests the long-acting buprenorphine formulation BUP-XR is more effective than placebo in helping patients struggling with addiction to opioids. BUP-XR is a monthly extended-release injection. Source: Photo by©iStock.com/ognianm Daily dose buprenorphine was... (Source: NIDA News)MedWorm Message: If you are looking to buy something in the January Sales please visit TheJanuarySales.com for a directory of all the best sales in the UK. Any income gained via affiliate l
  
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• Narcissists and Abusers Use This to Target Empaths

  18-02-2019 15:00
  Projection is a defense mechanism commonly used by abusers, including people with narcissistic or borderline personality disorder and addicts. Basically, they say, “It’s not me, it’s you!”
  When we project, we’re defending ourselves against unconscious impulses or traits, either positive or negative, that we’ve denied in ourselves. Instead we attribute them to others. Our thoughts or feelings about someone or something are too uncomfortable to acknowledge. In o
  
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• Trucking in meth: How smugglers sneak the destructive drug into Winnipeg

  18-02-2019 11:00
  Before their arrest last October, police allege Allan Rodney and Shontal Vaupotic were smugglers. The truck they drove and the road they travelled for a major Western Canadian drug trafficking operation were their conduit to a highly addictive drug Winnipeggers are importing in droves. (Source: CBC | Health)
  
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• Medical News Today: Marijuana may be risky for those with heart disease

  18-02-2019 11:00
  The case of a 70-year-old man who had a heart attack after eating a marijuana lollipop has caused concern in the medical community. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Probability discounting of monetary gains and losses in opioid-dependent adults - Garami J, Moustafa A.

  18-02-2019 08:38
  This study is the first to investigate how opioid-dependent individuals make ris... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Prescription painkillers found to worsen chronic pain, generating more demand for the same drugs

  17-02-2019 09:04
  (Natural News) The opioid epidemic that is currently plaguing the United States is no longer a secret; millions of citizens across the nation are struggling with an addiction to the prescription painkillers. One of the primary defenses for these often-harmful drugs is that so many people take them to relieve unyielding and insufferable pain. But... (Source: NaturalNews.com)
  
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• The effect of matrix model on depression, anxiety, and quality of life in methamphetamine users and their caregivers - Masaeli N, Zarkob H, Kheirabadi G, Soleimani N, Amini M.

  16-02-2019 09:44
  Subjects:  Addiction is a mental disorder that affects all aspects of life, individual health, family, and society. Methamphetamine is the second widely used illegal drug in the world, and Iran has the fifth highest prevalence of methamphetamine abuse. Thi... (Source: SafetyLit)
  
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• Naltrexone: a history and future directions - Srivastava B, Gold MS.

  16-02-2019 09:44
  Trying to kick drug addiction without medicines is said to be like relying on willpower to overcome diabetes or asthma. Enter naltrexone, which has been around since 1984 and reduces the cravings for drugs and alcohol by fine-tuning the brain's chemical re... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Big Pharma is blocking efforts to halt the opioid epidemic… because there's profit in POISON

  16-02-2019 04:43
  (Natural News) The opioid addiction epidemic in the U.S. may be a problem longer than it has any right to be thanks to the efforts of Big Pharma, which is trying its hardest to block its treatment through one way or another. According to Robin Feldman, a professor in pharmaceutical law at University of California,... (Source: NaturalNews.com)
  
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• Trump Said China Doesn ’t Have a Drug Problem. The Data Tells A Different Story

  15-02-2019 21:38
  President Donald Trump on Friday said that China does not have a drug problem, and suggested that the U.S. should emulate its harsh drug-regulation tactics — but data from China tells a different story.
  Trump spoke in the White House Rose Garden Friday to announce that he would declare a national emergency to secure funding for a border wall without Congressional approval. During the address, Trump also spoke about the ongoing substance abuse epidemic in the U.S., and referred to conversat
  
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• Opioid maker used rap video to push powerful painkiller

  15-02-2019 20:19
  Employees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around a human-size bottle of a highly addictive fentanyl spray in a video meant to motivate sales reps to push the drug (Source: ABC News: Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• One size does NOT fit all when it comes to medicine: Genetic study finds wide variation in risk of addiction when opioids are used for chronic pain

  15-02-2019 20:06
  (Natural News) Chronic pain often pushes people to use opioid painkillers such as morphine and Vicodin, which may leave sufferers with an increased risk of prescription opioid addiction. Millions of Americans see their doctors for chronic pains, and doctors, in turn, resolve to prescribe these medications for immediate relief. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) are... (Source: NaturalNews.com)MedWorm Message: If you are looking to buy something in the January Sales please vi
  
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• Drug company used rap video to push for higher doses, sales

  15-02-2019 16:59
  Employees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around a life-size bottle of a highly addictive fentanyl spray in a video meant to motivate sales reps into getting patients on higher doses (Source: ABC News: Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Insurers Making It Harder to Treat Opioid Addiction: Study

  15-02-2019 09:02
  FRIDAY, Feb. 15, 2019 -- Insurance rules that limit access to the addiction treatment medication buprenorphine may be worsening the U.S. opioid epidemic, a new study suggests. " Buprenorphine is a safe and effective treatment that decreases deaths... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)MedWorm Message: If you are looking to buy something in the January Sales please visit TheJanuarySales.com for a directory of all the best sales in the UK. Any income gained via affiliate links keeps MedWorm runnin
  
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• USDA and HHS Partner to Create Recovery Housing in Rural Communities

  15-02-2019 06:00
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a partnership to create addiction recovery transitional housing in rural communities. Nonprofit organizations that provide housing, treatment, job training, and other key services will be able to purchase homes from the USDA at a discount and convert them to transitional housing for people in substance misuse treatment and recovery. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
  
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• Internal rap video adds to Insys woes in opioid trial

  14-02-2019 22:06
  During the racketeering trial for Insys Therapeutics founder, federal prosecutors shared a five-minute in-house rap video that they say was designed to motivate employees to push sales of a highly addictive fentanyl spray. (Source: PharmaManufacturing.com)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Soterix Medical launches tDCS trial for cocaine addiction

  14-02-2019 21:33
  Soterix Medical said yesterday that it won a Phase I NIH-SBIR contract from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Drug Abuse to launch a trial of its remote transcranial direct current stimulation platform intended to treat cocaine addiction.
  The Phase I contract comes with a value of approximately $475,000 delivered over a period of eight months and supports the application to a Phase II award for a larger efficacy trial which will culminate in an FDA marketing tri
  
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• American Well debuts next-gen telemedicine cart, partners with Netsmart on opioid addiction counseling

  14-02-2019 19:22
  The company's new 250 cart connects providers to specialists anywhere, not just within their own system. (Source: mobihealthnews)
  
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• Prescription opioid use spreads through households – when one household member uses, it increases the risk of others becoming addicts

  14-02-2019 18:15
  (Natural News) The country’s opioid epidemic involves not only current prescription opioid users, but their immediate family members as well. According to a report from Marissa J. Seamans of the John Hopkins Univeristy Bloomberg School of Public Health, living in a household with a prescription opioid user may cause others in the household to become... (Source: NaturalNews.com)
  
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• New drug that reverses memory loss from aging set for human trials

  14-02-2019 16:45
  Scientists at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have created a drug that reversed age-related memory loss in mice and is now set for human trials in the next two years. (Source: the Mail online | Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Meth Abuse Driving Big Spike in Syphilis Cases

  14-02-2019 16:02
  THURSDAY, Feb. 14, 2019 -- A startling increase in syphilis cases among Americans may be linked to addiction to methamphetamine and other drugs, federal health officials said Thursday.Between 2013 and 2017, the rate of syphilis infection among... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
  
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• Insys executives used rap video to push sales of potentially lethal opioid

  14-02-2019 13:06
  A newly released video is raising questions about Insys Therapeutics, a company at the center of a criminal investigation stemming from the nation's opioid epidemic. Former executives and managers for Insys are on trial in Boston. They're accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray. Tony Dokoupil reports. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account.
  
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• New molecules reverse memory loss linked to depression, aging

  14-02-2019 05:00
  (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) New therapeutic molecules developed at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) show promise in reversing the memory loss linked to depression and aging.These molecules not only rapidly improve symptoms, but remarkably, also appear to renew the underlying brain impairments causing memory loss in preclinical models. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
  
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• Educate teens about cannabis mental health risks

  14-02-2019 00:00
  Smoking cannabis in teens linked to greater risk of depression and suicidal thoughts and attempts Related items fromOnMedica ‘Hard-hitting’ approach to tackling addiction set to be dropped US use of broad-spectrum antibiotics shows worrying increase Commission more teen mental health and alcohol services Uni students risking health using drugs to get higher marks Failing national drugs policy behind rising death toll, say experts (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
  
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• Experimental 'nano-painkiller' is more effective and less addictive than morphine

  13-02-2019 21:43
  Researchers at the University of Delaware and in France re-engineered naturally occurring compounds to treat pain with longer lasting effects than morphine but minimal addiction risk. (Source: the Mail online | Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Book Review: Eating Disorders: The Journey to Recovery Workbook, 2nd Ed.

  13-02-2019 20:28
  There is no such thing as a life free of distress. And yet in the distress — by learning to move through it, find strengths that help us cope, and most importantly, not avoid it — we often find the path to growth.
  This path, from finding escape from the distress of life to finding growth in it, is also the journey that underlies the recovery from an eating disorder.
  “People with eating disorders, like all people, flourish when they feel a sense of agency,” write authors L
  
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• Transcript available for National Drugs and Alcohol Chat Day 2019

  12-02-2019 19:26
  Drugs and Alcohol Chat Day is  an annual live online chat held between high school students and NIH scientists. Chat Day is part ofNational Drug and Alcohol Facts Week®. During Chat Day students have the opportunity to ask the questions they most want answers to about drugs, alcohol, and drug use, including drug and alcohol effects, how to help friends or family, and what causes addiction.    (Source: NIAAA News)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engin
  
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• 60% fewer insurers cover opioid addiction drugs now than in 2007, study finds

  12-02-2019 16:27
  Only 35% of insurers covered the opiod addiction treatment drug, buprenorphine, unrestricted in 2018, an Oregon Health and Science University study reveals. (Source: the Mail online | Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Vulnerability to alcohol and drug addiction in adolescents: an experience in Bolivia - Saavedra AM, Tornese EB.

  12-02-2019 12:05
  The objective of this study was to identify indicators of vulnerability to alcohol/drug use and abuse in certain adolescent personality profiles through the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents (MMPI-A) and obtain warning... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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• Crystal Meth Is North Korea ’ s Trendiest Lunar New Year ’ s Gift

  12-02-2019 10:10
  Many North Koreans see the highly addictive drug as a useful stimulant. The government denies that it even exists in the country. (Source: NYT Health)
  
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• Opioids Overprescribed for Common Children's Fracture, Study Says

  12-02-2019 09:00
  TUESDAY, Feb. 12, 2019 -- Children who have surgery for a broken elbow may be overprescribed potentially addictive opioid painkillers, a new study finds.
  Overprescription includes giving kids too many opioids when they are sent home -- raising the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
  
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• Indivior loses U.S. district court battle, copycat launches imminent

  12-02-2019 07:26
  Generic competitors to British drugmaker Indivior Plc's blockbuster opioid addiction treatment are on course to launch sales next week after the firm's attempt to stay a U.S. District court judgement was rejected. (Source: Reuters: Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
  
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