Anti-seizure drug helps meth, cocaine addicts
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When Dr. Jonathan Brodie travels to Mexico to oversee a study of an experimental medicine for methamphetamine and cocaine addicts, he&#39;s greeted by people clamoring to shake his hand, kiss his
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A new drug called rasagiline reduces fluctuations in the control of movement by people with Parkinson's disease who are being treated with the standard rug levodopa, researchers report.
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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?    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 drug has been found to slow a common cause of vision loss - and even improve sight in some patients.
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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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ELEANOR HALL: It&#39;s been found to help ameliorate some of the side-effects of chemotherapy, reduce spasms associated with multiple sclerosis and help patients with chronic pain.
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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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NEW YORK  - Naltrexone, a drug that has  been used to treat various addictions, safely controls sexual  impulses and arousal in adolescent sexual offenders, new  research shows.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- While most people with epilepsy report that their anti-seizure medications work, many say the accompanying side effects limit them in their daily lives.
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A drug that helps people quit smoking also helps them prevent the excess weight gain that often plagues ex-smokers, according to research released at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) Annual Scientific Meeting.
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HOGBACK, New Mexico  - A brutal triple slaying in this remote corner of the vast Navajo reservation brought home what experts have seen coming for years: an explosion in crime on tribal lands linked to the cheap, potent and highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
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NEW YORK  - Young people who abuse methamphetamines may put themselves at risk of parkinson-like movement disorders later in life, a new animal study suggests.
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A vaccine now in clinical trials gets the body's immune system to attack cocaine when it's introduced, thereby killing the desire for it, say researchers who believe they have found a cure for the addiction.
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U.S. users of crystal methamphetamine tend to be young, poor, white men often with an incarcerated father, according to a study suggesting that its use may be more common than previously estimated.
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A leading drugs charity is claiming more and more children are seeking help for cocaine addiction.
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A study of cannabis-based drugs shows long-term benefit in easing multiple sclerosis symptoms, scientists say.
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People infected with the virus that causes AIDS will soon be able to take a once-a-day pill that combines three drugs in a &quot;cocktail&quot; therapy that can be swallowed in a single dose.