Cocaine users' brains 'different'
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Cocaine users' brains have a different structure that could affect their judgement, a study suggests.
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Brain scans show significant differences in cranial activity when a person is lying compared to telling the truth, US researchers said yesterday.
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About 1.2 million people age 12 and older used the brain-damaging drug methamphetamine or prescription stimulants for non-medical reasons in 2003, unchanged from the year before, the government's substance abuse prevention agency reported Friday.
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Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the same compulsive drive for cocaine as people do once they're truly hooked.
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Scientists believe learning a second language alters a part of the brain.
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Research which says it is possible to live normally while regularly taking heroin sparks criticism.
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NEW YORK  - Prenatal cocaine exposure may have lasting effects on a child's ability to pay attention during the early school years, new study findings suggest.
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A part of the brain involved in both drug craving and judgment appears to be smaller in cocaine addicts than in healthy people, researchers have found.
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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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People who find it difficult to clear nicotine from their body may be more vulnerable to getting hooked on smoking, research suggests.
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Smoking cigarettes causes the same changes to the brain as using drugs like cocaine, a study suggests.
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LONDON, Enland -- Adrian Mutu has admitted taking a drug, but claims it was not cocaine but a drug to improve his sex life. The Romanian striker tested positive for cocaine last month, and is waiting to see
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NEW YORK  - Children who were exposed to cocaine in the womb show poorer-than-average language skills during their early years and do not catch up, new research suggests.
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Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove...
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Parkinson's disease victims who become  compulsive gamblers as a result of the drugs they take share  some common traits including age and alcohol use, a study said  on Monday.
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A study says frequent mobile phone users demonstrated slowed brain function but it was still considered within normal brain functioning.
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A novel study may provide an  answer to a question that has puzzled drug abuse researchers  for years -- namely, why someone would try a drug like heroin  for the first time knowing that it is highly addictive.