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The first programme Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial was broadcast in two parts on 26 and 27 September 2012, about MDMA. The main guests were Professor Valerie Curran and Professor David Nutt . [ 1 ] Curran and Nutt oversaw research at Imperial College London in which volunteers took part in a double blind study in which some took 83 mg of MDMA ...
Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption ...
Signs of amphetamine intoxication manifest themselves in euphoria, hypersexuality, tachycardia, diaphoresis, and intensifications of the train of thought, speech, and movement.
There’s no single explanation for why addiction treatment is mired in a kind of scientific dark age, why addicts are denied the help that modern medicine can offer. Family doctors tend to see addicts as a nuisance or a liability and don’t want them crowding their waiting rooms. In American culture, self-help runs deep.
Tablets sold as ecstasy sometimes contain 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), 3,4-methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA), other amphetamine derivatives, caffeine, opiates, or painkillers. [8] Some tablets contain little or no MDMA. [8] [10] [74] The proportion of seized ecstasy tablets with MDMA-like impurities has varied annually and by ...
Thomson's family decided to post a video on Facebook of the teen in her current state. They want to warn others of the dangers that can occur when taking drugs. In the video, Thomson's speech is ...
The exact cause of substance abuse is not clear, but there are two predominant theories: either a genetic predisposition or a habit learned from others, which, if addiction develops, manifests itself as a chronic debilitating disease. [8] In 2010, about 5% of adults (230 million) used an illicit substance. [2]
Dr. Lustig understands that asking people to stop consuming sugary drinks regularly is a big request—it isn’t easy to give them up, in part because, he says, they're addictive.