The Netherlands, with its very permissive marijuana laws, is known as the cannabis capital of the planet. Surprisingly, a survey published this month in PLoS Medicine, a journal of the Public Library of Science, indicates that the Dutch don’t actually experiment with marijuana as much as most people would expect. Despite much tougher drug laws [...]
Pfizer’s new anti-smoking drug Chantix was given more unhappy news after a group’s report that it can have serious physical side effects. The Federal Aviation Administration banned Chantix use by pilots and air traffic controllers.
The report, from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, states that hundreds of serious problems have been reported since Chantix was [...]
Most people don’t even know that it’s possible to “get high” with an asthma inhaler-It may not be , but that isn’t stopping a lot (25% of kids in this study) from trying anyway.
According to University of Michigan researchers, one fourth of teens who use an asthma inhaler state that they are trying to get [...]
Due to the intoxicating effects marijuana possesses, it has been made illegal in most countries. But this very quality is due to the fact that it marijuana mimics the effects of chemicals that the brain already uses for many important functions. Brain mechanisms use cannabis like compounds called endocannabinoids to [...]
The effects of nicotine and opiates on the brain’s reward system are both equally strong and occur in central pleasure sensing portions of the brain (nucleus accumbens).
By looking at rat brain tissues, a remarkable overlap occurs between the effects of nicotine and opiates in dopamine signaling pathways in the brain’s pleasure and reward centers.the control [...]
