Topic: DRUGS - on September 24, 2003 at 1:33:58 PM CEST
Epilepsy drug 'combats addiction'
An epilepsy drug can stop cocaine use in hard-core addicts, research in the journal Synapse suggests.
Experts from New York University found the drug, vigabatrin, works by eliminating the craving for cocaine.
Four out of ten hard-core addicts given the drug were able to stay clean for more than 60 days.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 23, 2003 at 1:26:28 PM CEST
Movie stars get hung up on KGB's anti-hangover drug
A drug created by the former KGB to keep its agents sober so that they could drink opponents under the table before stealing their secrets is being sold on the internet to Hollywood stars as a defence against hangovers.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 23, 2003 at 1:18:32 PM CEST
Marijuana crops up due to wet, warm weather
This summer's wet and warm weather sparked a bumper crop of marijuana, and state drug agents are rolling in reinforcements.
During the past month, Maine Drug Enforcement agents have located and destroyed nearly 500 marijuana plants in seven communities.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 20, 2003 at 6:51:43 PM CEST
Ten years of therapy in one night
Could a single trip on a piece of African rootbark help a junkie kick the habit? That was the claim in the 1960s, and now iboga is back in the spotlight. But is it a miracle cure? Daniel Pinchbeck decided to give it a go. And life, he says, will never be the same again...
In 1962, Howard Lotsof, a 19-year-old heroin addict in New York, ordered from a chemist iboga, a plant used in West African rituals, and tried it for extra kicks. After consuming the bitter rootbark powder, he experienced a visionary tour of his early memories. Thirty hours later, when the effects had subsided, he found that he had lost all craving for heroin, without withdrawal symptoms of any kind. He said he then gave iboga to seven other addicts and five stopped taking drugs immediately afterwards.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 20, 2003 at 12:25:26 PM CEST
Pot seized at Forces munition centre
The Canadian Forces said Friday they have seized nearly 1,000 cannabis plants at a Forces munitions centre northeast of Montreal.
The plants were found earlier this week after provincial police advised the Forces marijuana may have been growing on their territory.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 18, 2003 at 12:08:01 PM CEST
E-fer madness
In a bizarre turn of events, the results of the most widely publicized study on the effects of Ecstasy on the brain were recently retracted. Published in the journal Science in September 2002, the study found that Ecstasy dramatically damaged monkey brain cells and was even deadly in some instances. At the time the study was released, former National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner called taking Ecstasy "playing Russian roulette with your brain." But critics scratched their heads, wondering how 40 percent of the test animals could die when so few humans actually OD on MDMA. Almost a year later, an investigation conducted by the study's own researchers has revealed that the monkeys were given speed, not the popular club drug.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 17, 2003 at 9:35:49 PM CEST
120 Indoor- und 38 Outdoor-Hanfpflanzen
In Göfis hat die Gendarmerie fast 160 Hanf-Pflanzen sichergestellt. Hanfladenbesitzer Hannes Lampert wehrt sich gegen die Beschlagnahme seiner Pflanzen. Er sagte gegenüber Radio Vorarlberg, dass er die Stecklinge nur in seinem Geschäft verkaufen wollte.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 16, 2003 at 12:43:31 AM CEST
Chronischer Kopfschmerz durch Arzneimissbrauch
Rund 100.000 Österreicher leiden unter chronischem Kopfschmerz. Häufigste Ursache sei die ständige unkontrollierte Einnahme von Schmerzmitteln, erklärten nun Experten bei einem internationalen Kongress.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 4, 2003 at 5:05:50 AM CEST
Wundertüte Whisky
Whisky ist eine Wunderwelt der Aromen: Pattex, Desinfektionsmittel oder Räucherlachs kommen einigen Testern in den Sinn, wenn sie ihre Nase in das Whiskyglas stecken. Andere haben poetischere Assoziationen wie Zitronenmarmelade oder Vanille. Protokoll einer Verkostung vor der Weltwhisky-Insel Islay in Westschottland.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 29, 2003 at 11:17:10 AM CEST
Jeder fünfte Student ist psychisch labil
Über 20 Prozent der deutschen Hochschüler leiden unter Essstörungen oder Depressionen, viele greifen regelmäßig zur Flasche oder zum Joint. Das zeigt eine neue Untersuchung Kölner Forscher. Sie sehen einen engen Zusammenhang zwischen Drogenkonsum, seelischer Balance und Studienerfolg.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2003 at 1:50:21 AM CEST
Ein Tag Gefängnis für Hanf-Guru
Im schlimmsten Fall hätten Ed Rosenthal bis zu 60 Jahre Gefängnis geblüht. Jetzt wurde er zu einer eintägigen Haftstrafe verurteilt. Der in den USA umstrittene Cannabis-Experte hatte Marihuana für medizinische Zwecke angebaut. Doch selbst einen Tag Haft hält er noch für zu viel.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2003 at 1:46:57 AM CEST
Nach dem Herzinfarkt Cannabis
Deutsche Forscher: Krankhafte Vergrößerung der Herzkammer wird so verhindert
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