Topic: Drug Addiction
Richard Pillajo, a wellness education officer at a Florida state prison, strayed beyond his job description, according to investigators who arrested him last year. He allegedly planned to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and hydrocodone pills to inmates for a payoff of $2,500. Florida's corrections secretary, Walt McNeil, praised the ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prolonged exposure to cocaine can cause permanent changes in the way genes are switched on and off in the brain, a finding that may lead to more effective treatments for many kinds of addiction, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. A study in mice by Ian Maze of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and colleagues ...
The addiction to alcohol is not a new phenomenon. This is a problem faced by the society for quite a long period of time. Drinking alcohol in some way or the other is a common fact and the result is that several people gets addicted to this without even knowing the fact that they are becoming a ...
