The answer depends on whom you ask.
Plot twist: Cannabis component might actually help fight addiction, study concludes
A preclinical study using rats shows that Cannabidiol can reduce the risk of relapse.
Scientists successfully undo cocaine-induced cardiovascular damage in mice
Modulating a cocaine pathway dramatically reduced heart damage in mice on cocaine.
Mitochondria in the brain changed by cocaine use — the findings could help us better fight addictions
Maybe other drugs have similar effects.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but we need to discuss snortable chocolate
The latest snuff craze sweeping through America is not even that worrying; it’s just silly.
How long drugs stay in your body
Who hasn’t wondered at one point how long different drugs stay in the body?
Smart kids more likely to take drugs in adulthood
A new study which capitalized on an extensive ongoing survey, shows that children with high IQs, especially girls, are more likely to indulge in illicit drug use in their 30’s than people with lower IQs. Dr. James White of Cardiff University and his team of researchers used data gathered from the British Cohort Study, an ongoing social experiment first started in
Cocaine found at Kennedy Space Center… again
NASA’s Inspector General’s Office says an investigation is under way after a white powdery substance found at the Kennedy Space Center tested positive for cocaine. I wanted to insert some puns somewhere in this post about astronauts, cocaine, high and outer space, but by the time I finished researching for this post I remembered that N.A.S.A. is through some though
Two hours worth of gaming is like snorting a line of coke…therapist says
It’s ignorance like this that never sees to baffle me. Steve Pop is an overnight notorious psychotherapist who, like most of today’s center stage and tomorrow’s props, became famous after stating live on BBC Radio that “spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces in the brain.” “It’s the
I take thee…Cocaine
Of all drugs, cocaine creates the greatest psychological dependence, because it stimulates key pleasure centers within the brain and causes extremely heightened euphoria. Drugs like this mess with the brain’s circuitry and hijack the reward system. Cocaine cravings are said to be so strong that just the memory of the feelings associated with use of the drug trigger the desire
9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days
Nowadays, people seem to be more and more stressed, even average people that at least apparently don’t take big gambles. Researchers have put a lot of time and money into the study of this problem, and came up with a whole lot of theories, but really, don’t let those fool you. Here’s the real deal, here’s why it was so
In Madrid and Barcelona cocaine is in the air
It’s quite impossible not to be aware of the fact that someone is smoking marijuana somewhere around you because of its particular smell. However, who would have suspected that the air people breathe in a certain area of a city could in fact hide traces of 5 powerful drugs in it? This is what researchers discovered when they analyzed the
Honey bees on cocaine dance more
A study conducted by entomology and neuroscience professor Gene Robinson from the University of Illinois sheds new light on the way insect brain works proving that honey bees on cocaine tend to overreact. Usually, foraging honey bees alert the others from the hive about food sources only when more food is necessary or when the quality of the discovered food
