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Alcohol Leaving the UK Charts With a Hangover (En)

Are we allowing alcohol marketing to children and teens via the music they love? As many as one in five songs in the UK top ten today include references to alcohol -- a figure rising partly due to US-imported songs. What impact is this having on the youth of today? Experts warn that fresh evidence demonstrates that public health messages...

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Use of cocaine may increase one’s vulnerability to HIV infection (En)

Cocaine use may increase one's vulnerability to HIV infection, according to a new research report published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology. In the report, scientists show that cocaine alters immune cells, called "quiescent CD4 T cells," to render them more susceptible to the virus, and at the same time, to allow for increased proliferation of the virus. "We ultimately hope...

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Mental Illness Linked to Heavy Cannabis Use (En)

People with mental illnesses are more than seven times more likely to use cannabis weekly compared to people without a mental illness. People with mental illnesses are more than seven times more likely to use cannabis weekly compared to people without a mental illness, according to researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) who studied U.S. data. Cannabis...

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Shape, Size of Wine Glass May Skew How Much You Pour (En)

You may be serving wine with a heavier hand than you believe: The size, shape and location of a wine glass can affect how much you pour into the glass, according to a new study. Most people think of a glass as just one serving, but it could be closer to two or three, which means that it can be easy...

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Cannabis Use May Worsen Sexual Dysfunction, Rat Study Suggests (En)

Rany Shamloul's recent review of the medical literature on cannabis use and sexual health has revealed that cannabis use may negatively impact male sexual performance. "Cannabis is the most widely-used illicit drug globally," says Dr. Shamloul, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. "It is also often used by young, sexually active people who are unaware of the...

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Five-hour ‘slow TV’ knitting show to air in Norway (En)

Earlier in the year, Norway offered a 12-hour, prime-time show on local TV of a burning fireplace. Now they have gone one stage further, and will be offering an evening-long program featuring a group of eight people knitting. What could be more cosy? Digital Journal reported on the relaxing and warming show of a crackling fire being built and maintained for...

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Understanding the Dangers of the Fake Marijuana Called ‘Spice’ or ‘K2’ (En)

The harmful effects of increasingly popular designer cannabis products called "Spice" or "K2" have puzzled scientists for years, but now a group of researchers is reporting progress toward understanding what makes them so toxic. The study, published in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry, describes development of a method that could someday help physicians diagnose and treat the thousands of young...

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Long-Term Cannabis Use May Blunt the Brain’s Motivation System (En)

Long-term cannabis users tend to produce less dopamine, a chemical in the brain linked to motivation, a study has found. Researchers found that dopamine levels in a part of the brain called the striatum were lower in people who smoke more cannabis and those who began taking the drug at a younger age. They suggest this finding could explain why some cannabis...

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Research Attributes High Rates of Smoking Among Mentally Ill to Addiction Vulnerability (En)

People with mental illness smoke at much higher rates than the overall population. But the popular belief that they are self-medicating is most likely wrong, according to researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Instead, they report, research indicates that psychiatric disease makes the brain more susceptible to addiction. As smoking rates in the general population have fallen below 25...

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Shopping Doesn’t Help Post-Traumatic Stress, Researchers Say (En)

Some people go shopping in an attempt to cope with the stress of traumatic events, but it actually makes things worse, according to a small, new study. The researchers found that traumatic events cause more stress for materialistic people and that they are more likely to spend compulsively as a result. These people tend to have lower self-esteem than others, according...

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