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The Black Market for Seroquel
Speed freaks, coke heads, and antipsychotics.Last week, writing on the Daily Beast web site, reporter Jeff Deeney profiled a startling underground market for the antipsychotic medication Seroquel (quetiapine). Deeney described street transactions in ...
Another Round of Trials for Vigabatrin
Firm secures funding for anti-craving tests.A Florida pharmaceutical company has secured financing for additional testing of the anti-addiction drug vigabatrin, despite the drug’s poor performance in earlier trials. Patrick J. McEnany, chairman and...
Who are Cocaine’s Primary Victims?
The answer may surprise you. They are not necessarily the poor, the desperate, or the weak-willed. A National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) study by Dr. Michael Nader and coworkers at Wake Forest University demonstrates that they are likely to be...
Guest Post: Things Go Better with Meth
The Pepsi Challenge with controlled substances.[Today’s post comes to us from Neurological Correlates, a blog devoted to the neuroscience of dysfunctional behavior. It was written by Swivelchair, who refers to himself as “an anonymous biopharma ...
The Pharmacokinetics of Speed
Meth lingers longer than coke, targets different brain areas.Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, already famous for their work on positron emission tomography (PET) scans, have traced the pathways by which methamphetamine lingers in the...
Drugs for Cocaine Addiction
Researchers target GABA, noradrenaline.According to Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, a company conducting research on drugs for the treatment of addiction, "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recognized that cocaine addiction is a 'serious, l...
No Pill for Stimulant Addiction
Meth and cocaine continue to elude researchers.Despite promising trials of several compounds, methamphetamine addiction remains largely impervious to anti-craving pills and other forms of drug treatment. According to a paper in the June issue of Add...
If the Genes Fit....
U.K psychiatrists agree addiction is "genetically determined."Although the verdict is very little in doubt these days, the heritability of addictions was reaffirmed by the U.K.'s Royal College of Psychiatrists in London on July 4th.In a presentation ...
Meth to the West, Cocaine to the East, Pot in the Middle
The geography of drug use.To paraphrase an old tune by Gerry Rafferty, we got meth to the left of us, cocaine to the right, and here we are, stuck in the middle with pot.The National Drug Threat Survey of 2007, a product of the National Drug Intellig...
Epigenetics and Addiction
Turning off the genes for substance abuse.If psychiatric disorders, including depression and addiction, are rooted in nature, but modified by nurture, some better way of viewing the interaction between genes and the environment is desperately needed....
Annals of Addiction: Malcolm McDowell
From The Harder They Fall"My father was an alcoholic, so I never really drank much. I kept away from it, but I didn't realize that cocaine was really the same thing. Alcohol eventually started getting a little out of control, but in the form of 'fine...
The Chemistry of Cocaine Addiction
Crack, free-base, and powderThe cocaine high is a marvel of biochemical efficiency. Cocaine works primarily by blocking the reuptake of dopamine molecules in the synaptic gap between nerve cells. Dopamine remains stalled in the gap, stimulating the r...
Fewer People Testing Positive For Meth and Cocaine
Quest Diagnostics releases 2007 figures.Quest Diagnostics, the nation’s leading provider of employee drug testing services, reported a 22 percent drop in the number of U.S. workers and job applicants testing positive for methamphetamine last year. ...
FDA Puts Coke/Meth Treatment on Fast Track
Sabril may block cravings for stimulantsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Fast Track designation to vigabatrin, an anticonvulsant marketed as Sabril, for evaluation as an anti-craving drug for cocaine and methamphetamine addiction...
Cocaine is Cocaine: New Sentencing Guidelines
U.S. Supreme Court relaxes jail time for crack crimes In a little-noted ruling last month, the U.S. Supreme Court bowed to reality and restored a measure of sanity to cocaine sentencing guidelines. The Court ruled, on a 7-2 vote in the case of Kimbro...
Vote of No Confidence For Prometa
Addiction drug loses major fundingIt is composed of three common and inexpensive drugs used for other purposes. It has never been subjected to clinical double blind testing. It costs thousands of dollars for the full treatment package, and the compan...
