Male Rats' Cocaine Exposure Affects Their Offspring's Drug Responses

Male Rats' Cocaine Exposure Affects Their Offspring's Drug Responses

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A father's drug use can influence his child's vulnerability to drug use and addiction by the example it sets and the environmental exposures it entails. New evidence from an animal study suggests that a father's drug use might also affect a child's …
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Why I changed my mind on weed

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Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have "no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse." Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN\'s chief medical correspondent.
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Head of National Institute on Drug Abuse is nominated for civil service award

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For 10 years, Nora Volkow has been the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, overseeing a budget of nearly $ 1 billion and much of the world's research on one of medicine's most controversial subjects. It isn't surprising that she has her …
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