Americans Are Increasingly Abusing Painkillers.
Rehab admissions akin to alcohol, opiates (including remedy painkillers) and marijuana increased in the United States between 1999 and 2009, according to a novel national report. However, fewer people sought treatment for problems with cocaine and methamphetamine or amphetamines, the researchers noted. One of the most staggering increases over the 10-year swat period: opiate admissions, mostly due to use of medicament opioids, which include painkillers such as oxycodone (Oxycontin) or Vicodin (hydrocodone).
The findings showed that 96 percent of the nearly 2 million admissions to curing facilities that occurred in 2009 were kindred to alcohol (42 percent), opiates (21 percent), marijuana (18 percent), cocaine (9 percent) and methamphetamine/amphetamines (6 percent). The promulgate from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) identified trends in the reasons why settle are admitted to gravamen abuse treatment facilities.
The SAMHSA report revealed that prescription drugs were to criticism for 33 percent of opiate rehab admissions in 2009 - up from just 8 percent a decade earlier. Alcohol tongue-lashing also remains a serious problem. It was the number one mind for substance abuse treatment among all major ethnic and racial groups, except Puerto Ricans, according to the report.
Showing posts with label marijuana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marijuana. Show all posts
Monday, 30 April 2018
Monday, 9 April 2018
Doctors Discovered How The Brain Dies
Doctors Discovered How The Brain Dies.
Shrunken structures privy the brains of unmanageable marijuana users might explain the stereotype of the "pothead," brain researchers report. Northwestern University scientists studying teens who were marijuana smokers or departed smokers found that parts of the mastermind related to working memory appeared diminished in size - changes that coincided with the teens' under par performance on memory tasks. "We observed that the shapes of brain structures connected to short-term memory seemed to collapse inward or shrink in people who had a history of circadian marijuana use when compared to healthy participants," said study author Matthew Smith.
He is an subordinate research professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. The shrinking of these structures appeared to be more advanced in common people who had started using marijuana at a younger age. This suggests that youngsters might be more influenceable to drug-related memory loss, according to the study, which was published in the Dec 16. 2013 descendant of the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin.
So "The brain abnormalities we're observing are anon related to poor short-term memory performance. The more that capacity looks abnormal, the poorer they're doing on memory tests". The paper is provocative because the participants had not been using marijuana for a duo years, indicating that memory problems might persist even if the person quits smoking the drug, said Dr Frances Levin, chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Council on Addiction Psychiatry. At the same time, Levin cautioned that the line presents a chicken-or-egg problem.
It's not explicit whether marijuana use caused the remembrance problems or people with memory problems tended to use marijuana. "The big $64000 examine is whether these memory problems predate the marijuana use". The swotting focused on nearly 100 participants sorted into four groups: healthy people who never used pot, tonic people who were former heavy pot smokers, people with schizophrenia who never used pan and schizophrenics who were former heavy pot users. Researchers used MRI scans to meditate on the structure of participants' brains.
Shrunken structures privy the brains of unmanageable marijuana users might explain the stereotype of the "pothead," brain researchers report. Northwestern University scientists studying teens who were marijuana smokers or departed smokers found that parts of the mastermind related to working memory appeared diminished in size - changes that coincided with the teens' under par performance on memory tasks. "We observed that the shapes of brain structures connected to short-term memory seemed to collapse inward or shrink in people who had a history of circadian marijuana use when compared to healthy participants," said study author Matthew Smith.
He is an subordinate research professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. The shrinking of these structures appeared to be more advanced in common people who had started using marijuana at a younger age. This suggests that youngsters might be more influenceable to drug-related memory loss, according to the study, which was published in the Dec 16. 2013 descendant of the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin.
So "The brain abnormalities we're observing are anon related to poor short-term memory performance. The more that capacity looks abnormal, the poorer they're doing on memory tests". The paper is provocative because the participants had not been using marijuana for a duo years, indicating that memory problems might persist even if the person quits smoking the drug, said Dr Frances Levin, chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Council on Addiction Psychiatry. At the same time, Levin cautioned that the line presents a chicken-or-egg problem.
It's not explicit whether marijuana use caused the remembrance problems or people with memory problems tended to use marijuana. "The big $64000 examine is whether these memory problems predate the marijuana use". The swotting focused on nearly 100 participants sorted into four groups: healthy people who never used pot, tonic people who were former heavy pot smokers, people with schizophrenia who never used pan and schizophrenics who were former heavy pot users. Researchers used MRI scans to meditate on the structure of participants' brains.
Monday, 12 March 2018
Smoking Increases The Risk Of Stillbirth
Smoking Increases The Risk Of Stillbirth.
Expectant mothers who smoke marijuana may triple their jeopardize for a stillbirth, a remodelled study suggests. The risk is also increased by smoking cigarettes, using other lawful and illegal drugs and being exposed to secondhand smoke. Stillbirth gamble is heightened whether moms are exposed to pot alone or in combination with other substances, the study authors added. They found that 94 percent of mothers who had stillborn infants second-hand one or more of these substances.
And "Even when findings are controlled for cigarette smoking, marijuana use is associated with an increased chance of stillbirth," said manage researcher Dr Michael Varner, associate director of women's health, obstetrics and gynecology at University of Utah School of Medicine. Stillbirth refers to fetal decease after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Among drugs, signs of marijuana use was most often found in umbilical rope blood from stillborn infants.
So "Because marijuana use may be increasing with increased legalization, the relation of these findings may increase as well". Indeed, this seems proper as the push to legalize marijuana has gained momentum. Colorado and Washington report voted for legalization of marijuana and states including California, Connecticut, Maine, Nevada and Oregon are legalizing its medical use.
In addition, these and other states, including New York and Ohio, are decriminalizing its use. "Both obstetric misery providers and the prominent should be aware of the associations between both cigarette smoking, including excuse-me-for-living exposure, and recreational/illicit drug use, and stillbirth". Although the numbers were smaller for medicament narcotics, there appears to be an association between exposure to these drugs and stillbirth as well.
While the study Dec 2013 found an relationship between use of marijuana, other drugs and tobacco by pregnant women and higher risk of stillbirth, it did not support a cause-and-effect relationship. The report appears in the January issue of Obstetrics andamp; Gynecology. Study chief author Dr Uma Reddy, a medical officer at the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said the apologia why marijuana may augment the risk for stillbirths isn't clear.
Expectant mothers who smoke marijuana may triple their jeopardize for a stillbirth, a remodelled study suggests. The risk is also increased by smoking cigarettes, using other lawful and illegal drugs and being exposed to secondhand smoke. Stillbirth gamble is heightened whether moms are exposed to pot alone or in combination with other substances, the study authors added. They found that 94 percent of mothers who had stillborn infants second-hand one or more of these substances.
And "Even when findings are controlled for cigarette smoking, marijuana use is associated with an increased chance of stillbirth," said manage researcher Dr Michael Varner, associate director of women's health, obstetrics and gynecology at University of Utah School of Medicine. Stillbirth refers to fetal decease after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Among drugs, signs of marijuana use was most often found in umbilical rope blood from stillborn infants.
So "Because marijuana use may be increasing with increased legalization, the relation of these findings may increase as well". Indeed, this seems proper as the push to legalize marijuana has gained momentum. Colorado and Washington report voted for legalization of marijuana and states including California, Connecticut, Maine, Nevada and Oregon are legalizing its medical use.
In addition, these and other states, including New York and Ohio, are decriminalizing its use. "Both obstetric misery providers and the prominent should be aware of the associations between both cigarette smoking, including excuse-me-for-living exposure, and recreational/illicit drug use, and stillbirth". Although the numbers were smaller for medicament narcotics, there appears to be an association between exposure to these drugs and stillbirth as well.
While the study Dec 2013 found an relationship between use of marijuana, other drugs and tobacco by pregnant women and higher risk of stillbirth, it did not support a cause-and-effect relationship. The report appears in the January issue of Obstetrics andamp; Gynecology. Study chief author Dr Uma Reddy, a medical officer at the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said the apologia why marijuana may augment the risk for stillbirths isn't clear.
Friday, 13 May 2016
Marijuana Affects The Index IQ
Marijuana Affects The Index IQ.
A unfamiliar analysis challenges former research that suggested teens put their long-term brainpower in danger when they smoke marijuana heavily. Instead, the study indicated that the earlier findings could have been thrown off by another factor - the effect of inadequacy on IQ. The author of the new analysis, Ole Rogeberg, cautioned that his theory may not hold much water. "Or, it may say out that it explains a lot," said Rogeberg, a research economist at the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research in Oslo, Norway.
The authors of the inaugural study responded to a solicit for comment with a joint statement saying they stand by their findings. "While Dr Rogeberg's ideas are interesting, they are not supported by our data," wrote researchers Terrie Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi and Madeline Meier. Moffitt and Caspi are nature professors at Duke University, while Meier is a postdoctoral allied there.
Their study, published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, attracted media acclaim because it suggested that smoking spare tyre has more than short-term effects on how people think. Based on an examination of mental tests given to more than 1000 New Zealanders when they were 13 and 38, the Duke researchers found that those who heavily second-hand marijuana as teens lost an average of eight IQ points over that time period.
It didn't seem to puzzle if the teens later cut back on smoking pot or stopped using it entirely. In the pithy term, people who use marijuana have memory problems and trouble focusing, research has shown. So, why wouldn't users have problems for years?
A unfamiliar analysis challenges former research that suggested teens put their long-term brainpower in danger when they smoke marijuana heavily. Instead, the study indicated that the earlier findings could have been thrown off by another factor - the effect of inadequacy on IQ. The author of the new analysis, Ole Rogeberg, cautioned that his theory may not hold much water. "Or, it may say out that it explains a lot," said Rogeberg, a research economist at the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research in Oslo, Norway.
The authors of the inaugural study responded to a solicit for comment with a joint statement saying they stand by their findings. "While Dr Rogeberg's ideas are interesting, they are not supported by our data," wrote researchers Terrie Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi and Madeline Meier. Moffitt and Caspi are nature professors at Duke University, while Meier is a postdoctoral allied there.
Their study, published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, attracted media acclaim because it suggested that smoking spare tyre has more than short-term effects on how people think. Based on an examination of mental tests given to more than 1000 New Zealanders when they were 13 and 38, the Duke researchers found that those who heavily second-hand marijuana as teens lost an average of eight IQ points over that time period.
It didn't seem to puzzle if the teens later cut back on smoking pot or stopped using it entirely. In the pithy term, people who use marijuana have memory problems and trouble focusing, research has shown. So, why wouldn't users have problems for years?
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