The Wellcome Trust recognised Vanderbilt’s Carrie K Jones and the University of Glasgow’s Andrew Tobin with the prestigious Discovery Award. The pair will study how blocking the M5 muscarinic receptor in the brain counteracts opioids’ addictive properties, which could lead…
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Caught pretending to be other treatment providers
Florida-based Evoke Wellness substance use disorder clinic agreed to pay $1.9million to settle allegations that it used misleading online ads and telemarketing to pretend to be other treatment providers, according to the Federal Trade Commission. A federal judge needs to…
FDA to recognize reduced alcohol use as a goal
The US Food and Drug Administration is to recognize a relevant reduction in alcohol consumed by alcohol-dependent people as a treatment goal in approval studies for new therapeutic approaches, idw reported. This follows earlier lines of the European Medicines Agency,…
Brain maps of reward adapt fast to new experiences
Stanford University revealed that the brain rapidly rewires itself to map rewarding experiences like food, even when the location of those rewards changes – and may influence future behavior. The findings shed light on how spatial and reward memory interact…
What if research didn’t just study addiction recovery, but helped shape it?
Jay Unick PhD, MSW of the School of Social Work shared how Implementation Research to Improve Services helps communities expand what works and build stronger systems of recovery support. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, IRIS builds recovery…
Powerful sweetener in vapes marketed to teens
Yale University and Duke University found a super-sweet chemical in illegal flavored e-cigarettes that can make them more appealing to children. The sweetener, neotame, is up to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar. Neotame was found in all 11 vape products…
Damning audit: NSW government fails to measure, reduce gambling harm
Australia’s New South Wales government has not set targets to reduce the harm caused by about 90,000 poker machines in the state and does not know if it is protecting people, according to the state’s auditor general. The report assesses…
WHO launches Collaborating Centre on Alcohol Policy and Public Health Research
The World Health Organization Department of Health Promotion announced the designation of the Institute for Social Marketing and Health at the University of Stirling, Scotland, as a new WHO Collaborating Centre for Alcohol Policy and Public Health Research.
Scots drug deaths soar by 33%
Opposition politicians have branded the latest statistics of 33% more drug deaths January-March this year “devastating” and accused the SNP of “clearly failing” to address drug deaths. The increased drug deaths come almost 6 months after The Thistle drug consumption…
