Dependence News Headlines

• Insufferable Clinginess, or Healthy Dependence?
  New York Times - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:24 EST
  
• Nicotine's Role In Smoking Behavior
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• NIDA News Scan #48 - February 26, 2007 (PDF, 393 KB)
  National Institutes of Health - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:26 EST
  
• Hooked By Genes: Studies Identify DNA Regions Linked To Nicotine Dependence
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Reduced brain growth in alcoholic families
  The Earth Times - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:27 EST
  
• Excessive Drinking, Not Alcoholism, May Lead To Most Alcohol-Related Problems
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Bush Signs Law: More Patients May Be Treated For Opioid Dependence/Addiction With Buprenorphine
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Gene mutation may raise the risk of alcoholism
  Reuters - Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:58 EST
  
• Gene mutation may raise the risk of alcoholism
  Reuters - Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:05 EST
  
• Reduced Frontal-Lobe Activity And Impulsivity May Be Linked To Alcoholism Risk
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Reduced Frontal-lobe Activity And Impulsivity May Be Linked To Alcoholism Risk
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Successful Lung Cancer Surgery Not Enough To Break Nicotine Dependence In Many Smokers
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Sleep Problems Get In The Way Of Alcoholism Recovery
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:00 EST
  
• Successful Lung Cancer Surgery Not Enough To Break Nicotine Dependence In Many Smokers
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Smoking Changes Brain Chemistry
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Tiny Worm Provides Model For The Genetics Of Nicotine Dependence
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:00 EST
  
• Tiny Worm Provides Model For The Genetics Of Nicotine Dependence
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Adolescent Arrest History Influences Risk Of Acquiring HIV
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:00 EST
  
• Suboxone(R) (Buprenorphine/Naloxone) Approved In European Union For Treatment Of Opioid Dependence
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Decaf coffee may still pack a mini-caffeine punch
  Reuters - Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:25 EST
  
• Decaf coffee may still pack a mini-caffeine punch
  Reuters - Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:25 EST
  
• New sleeping pill not likely to be overused
  Reuters - Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:27 EST
  
• Blunt Smokers Link Dependence Potential To Nicotine
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:00 EST
  
• Study Examines Cost-Effectiveness Of Using Prizes To Treat Stimulant Abusers
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Early Alcohol Dependence Linked to Reduced Treatment Seeking and Chronic Relapse
  National Institutes of Health - Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:50 EST
  
• Mayo Researchers Discover HIV Dependence On A Human Protein
  ScienceDaily - Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
  
• HIV Dependence On A Human Protein, Mayo Researchers Discover
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Early Alcohol Dependence Linked To Reduced Treatment Seeking And Chronic Relapse
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Biotechnology Moved Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers By UC Davis Researchers
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Researchers Move Biotechnology Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Moving Biotechnology Closer To Replacing Electronic Pacemakers
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• An Asthma Antibody?.
  WebMD - Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:38 EST
  
• Heroin dependence can be treated in docs' offices
  Reuters - Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:29 EST
  
• Early drinking may speed alcohol dependence
  Reuters - Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:19 EST
  
• Early Drinking Linked To Higher Lifetime Alcoholism Risk
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:00 EST
  
• European Union's CHMP Adopts Positive Opinion For SUBOXONE(R) (Buprenorphine/Naloxone) For Treatment Of Opioid Dependence
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Review Sees No Advantage in 12-Step Programs
  New York Times - Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Early Drinking Linked To Risk For Alcohol Dependence
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Illicit Drug Use And Abuse May Be Genetic
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Illicit Drug Use And Abuse May Be Genetic
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Abuse Liability Study Results Of Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate (NRP104) Presented At CPDD
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:00 EST
  
• Brain's Receptors Sensitive To Pot May 'Open Door' In Treating Drug Dependence, Brain Disorders
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Brain's Receptors Sensitive To Pot May 'open Door' In Treating Drug Dependence, Brain Disorders
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Depressed parents' children prone to mental woes
  Reuters - Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:46 EST
  
• Genetically Altered Mice No Longer Like Cocaine
  ScienceDaily - Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Naltrexone or Specialized Alcohol Counseling an Effective Treatment for Alcohol Dependence When Delivered with Medical Management
  National Institutes of Health - Tue, 02 May 2006 07:30 EST
  
• American Psychiatric Association's 2006 Annual Meeting In Toronto, Canada, Begins This Weekend May 20-25, 2006
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 18 May 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Older Drug Helps Alcoholics Abstain
  WebMD - Tue, 02 May 2006 09:23 EST
  
• Study zeroes in on genes for opiate dependence
  Reuters - Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:56 EST
  
• Successful Treatment Of Alcoholism Found In The Doctor's Office
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 02 May 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Large Family Study Pinpoints Genetic Linkage In Drug Addiction
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:00 EST
  
• Large Family Study Pinpoints Genetic Linkage In Drug Addiction
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Large Family Study Pinpoints Genetic Linkage In Drug Addiction
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Alcoholism Once A Month Injectable Drug, Vivitrol, Approved By FDA
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:00 EST
  
• American Indians With Alcohol Problems Have More Medical Conditions
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Nasal Sprays Can Bring on Vicious Cycle
  New York Times - Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Drug may curb gambling addiction
  MSNBC - Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:56 EST
  
• Drug may curb pathological gambling
  Reuters - Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:25 EST
  
• Philips Develops A Woodstove That Saves Lives And Preserves Energy Resources
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:00 EST
  
• Alcohol Dependence Risk And Gene Variant For A Bitter-taster Receptor On The Tongue
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Repetition Reverses Med Students'' Stethoscope Shortcomings
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Variation In Bitter-taste Receptor Gene Increases Risk For Alcoholism
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Alcoholism Drug May Ease Ringing in the Ears
  WebMD - Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:48 EST
  
• Anxiety disorders compromise alcohol-dependence treatment success
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:00 EST
  
• Anxiety disorders can compromise success of alcohol-dependence treatment
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:00 EST
  
• Recovering alcoholic smokers can quit second addiction
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Fundamental treatment shift for alcohol dependence coming
  American Medical News - Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:00 EST
  
• Alcoholism may be in the genes, for flies
  Reuters - Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:31 EST
  
• Less intense response to alcohol sheds light on genetic tracing of alcohol dependence
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Under 1% of health plan members are diagnosed with alcohol use disorders, USA
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:00 EST
  
• Malawi Considering Domestic Manufacture of Antiretroviral Drugs To Minimize Dependence on Foreign Suppliers
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:00 EST
  
• New Drug Abuse Treatment Shows Promise
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Severe Allergic Asthma - Xolair® (omalizumab) add-on therapy significantly reduces attacks
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Nigeria enters joint venture to make vaccines
  Reuters - Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:47 EST
  
• New drug abuse treatment shows promise
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Cocktail of morphine with methadone reduces tolerance and dependence
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 07 Jun 2005 02:00 EST
  
• New Drug Abuse Treatment Shows Promise - Office-Based Buprenorphine
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Alcohol and drug abuse among doctors, BMA response to BBC research
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:00 EST
  
• Once-a-month Naltrexone Successfully Used To Treat Alcohol Dependence
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 17 May 2005 03:00 EST
  
• Genetic Variation Linked To Alcohol Dependence Found In A Russian Population
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Risk factors associated with elderly hospital deaths: Dependence on others and being too thin
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 25 May 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Study backs effectiveness of thrombolysis after stroke
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 09 May 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Once-a-month Injectable Medication Helps Treat Alcohol Dependence
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:00 EST
  
• Marijuana Withdrawal Reported By Teens Seeking Treatment
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 11 May 2005 03:00 EST
  
• Alcohol dependence - Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:00 EST
  
• Once-a-month naltrexone successfully used to treat alcohol dependence
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Genetic variation linked to alcohol dependence found in a Russian population
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Extending genetic associations with risk for alcohol dependence to a Russian population
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:00 EST
  
• Steroid addiction a risk for young athletes
  MSNBC - Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:51 EST
  
• Treating Alcoholism With a Monthly Shot
  WebMD - Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:52 EST
  
• Childhood Deficits In The Cerebellum May Be Linked To Adult Alcoholism
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:00 EST
  
• Study: Ethanol Production Consumes Six Units Of Energy To Produce Just One
  ScienceDaily - Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:00 EST
  
• Opioid dependence linked to worse outcomes in back injury patients
  American Medical News -