da admin | Dic 9, 2019 | General, News
With legalization efforts across the United States, cannabis use is becoming increasingly mainstream. Various studies have documented the effects of acute and chronic cannabis use on brain structure and cognitive performance, including within the...
da admin | Dic 8, 2019 | General, News
Cannabis use and cannabis use disorder (CUD) is increased in patients with schizophrenia. It is important to establish if this is explained by non-causal factors, such as shared genetic vulnerability. We aimed to investigate whether the polygenic risk...
da admin | Nov 28, 2019 | General, News
The EU Drug Markets Report 2019 is the third comprehensive overview of illicit drug markets in the European Union by the EMCDDA and Europol. The analysis presented in this report spans numerous topics such as the links between drugs and other crimes, the...
da admin | Apr 12, 2019 | General
There was a significant and immediate reduction in admissions to psychiatric facilities after the strict laws banning head shop drugs were introduced, new research shows. Head shop drugs, officially termed new psychoactive substances (NPS), started to become popular...
da admin | Apr 5, 2019 | General
Synthetic opioids refer to a category of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) that are either known to be opiates or have opiate-like effects. These are not naturally occurring substances, although they have effects related to the naturally occurring drugs from several...
da admin | Feb 15, 2019 | General
Drug addiction is a blight on people’s lives and on society but the solution to the problem is not just an individual one. Society can and must help those who fall victim to addition to drugs – from alcohol and nicotine through to illegal drugs. And in the UK, there...
