Health Tip: Symptoms of Addiction
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(HealthDay News) -- Addiction to drugs or alcohol can lead to a variety of behavioral and physical changes in teenagers.
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A study by the John Hopkins Medical Institute has claimed that caffeine is the &quot;most behaviourally active drug&quot; with even a single cup of coffee a day producing &quot;caffeine addiction&quot;.
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Scientists in China have identified about 400 genes that appear to make some people more easily addicted to drugs, opening the way for more effective therapies and addiction control.
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Can Prozac help you kick cocaine? Can Ritalin? How about a blood pressure pill or medicine for muscle spasms? If you're an alcoholic, could you get help staying sober by taking an anti-nausea drug used by cancer patients?
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Caffeine withdrawal syndrome -- that short-lived collection of miserable  symptoms caused by skipping too many doses of joe or cola -- may soon become a bona fide mental disorder.
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A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines last week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool to help people stop abusing drugs and alcohol, too.
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Dr. Mary Holley has witnessed the ravages of methamphetamine. As an obstetrician in Albertville, Ala., she estimates about 10 percent of her pregnant patients are addicted.
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DEAR ELLIE: I&#39;ve been married 10 years. I suspect my husband has a sexual addiction. He&#39;s been leading a double life -- hiding his use of porn, call girls and massage parlors from me until I figured it out.
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A new study published in The British Medical journal suggests that a genetic defect which slows the liver&#39;s capacity to clear nicotine from the body, boosts the chances of becoming addicted to tobacco, in new, young smokers.
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Scientists show the same areas of the brain involved in drug addiction control appetite.
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A single molecule may be partly to blame for nicotine's addictive allure, a finding that researchers say could lead to potential therapies to help millions of smokers quit.
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Chilean scientists have made a  discovery in the brains of rats that they say may help treat  drug addiction and ease the side effects of some medications.
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NEW YORK - Can Prozac help you kick cocaine? Can Ritalin? How about a blood pressure pill or medicine for muscle spasms? If you're an alcoholic, could you get help staying sober by taking an anti-nausea drug used by cancer patients?    Scientists are exploring those questions right now. In fact, in the field of addiction medicine, one of the hottest sources of new drugs is .....
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A once-a-day pill that helps people to lose weight and stop smoking could be available within two years. The drug, rimonabant, works on a newly discovered system in the brain that is involved
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NEW YORK  - First-degree relatives of  alcoholics are more likely to also become addicted to alcohol,  as well as to other drugs such as cocaine, according to new  research.
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Many people think they know what addiction is, but despite non-experts' willingness to opine on its treatment and whether Britney or Lindsay's rehab was tough enough, the term is still a battleground. Is addiction a disease? A moral weakness? A disorder caused by drug or alcohol use, or a compuls...
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People who find it difficult to clear nicotine from their body may be more vulnerable to getting hooked on smoking, research suggests.