Tamil Nadu fourth in drug menace suicide cases
Tamil Nadu fourth in drug menace suicide cases
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… Bureau says it targets youngsters and organizes several awareness programmes on drug abuse, besides taking steps to reduce both the demand and supply of drugs, Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, psychiatrist and founder of Sneha Suicide Prevention Centre, …
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Study: One in five US children have mental disorder
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California Health Report. As many as one in five children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder in a given year, according to national data recently compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC study released last …
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Addiction Relapse Might Be Thwarted By Turning Off Brain Trigger
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In the next part of the study, the researchers set out to see if they could prevent the reconsolidation of the memory of alcohol by inhibiting mTORC1, thus preventing relapse. When mTORC1 was inactivated using a drug called rapamycin, … The study was …
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In Debate Over Military Sexual Assault, Men Are Overlooked Victims
Filed under: drug abuse prevention
“It's easy for some people to single out women and say: 'There's a small percentage of the force having this problem,' ” said First Lt. Adam Cohen, who said he was raped by a superior officer. … “A focus of our prevention efforts over the next …
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Interview with Drug Abuse Prevention Center – On Nov. 8, 2008, Japan’s TV Show ‘the Newscaster’ broadcasted a special on the growth in cannabis related offenses. An ex-drug enforcement agent Mr. Atsushi …