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E-cigarette use is recognized as a substantial threat to adolescent behavioral health. [notes 1] [3] The use of tobacco products, no matter what type, is almost always started and established during adolescence when the developing brain is most vulnerable to nicotine addiction. [notes 2] [5] Young people's brains build synapses faster than ...
Endorphins may contribute to the positive effect of exercise on anxiety and depression. [43] The same phenomenon may also play a role in exercise addiction . Regular intense exercise may cause the brain to downregulate the production of endorphins in periods of rest to maintain homeostasis , causing a person to exercise more intensely in order ...
β-Endorphin (beta-endorphin) is an endogenous opioid neuropeptide and peptide hormone that is produced in certain neurons within the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. [1]
A National Institute on Drug Abuse video entitled Anyone Can Become Addicted to Drugs. [21]Nicotine dependence is defined as a neurobiological adaptation to repeated drug exposure that is manifested by highly controlled or compulsive use, the development of tolerance, experiencing withdrawal symptoms upon cessation including cravings, and an inability to quit despite harmful effects. [9]
Second-hand smoke is a mixture of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar, and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. It is involuntarily inhaled, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished, and may cause a wide range of adverse health effects, including cancer, respiratory infections, and asthma. [254]
Most people just think of men when they hear testosterone, but the primary male sex hormone is produced in women too (in the ovaries, in fact) and it turns out that more of it is released ...
“There is no medication without risk. People die every year from aspirin. People have penicillin allergies,” he said. Kleber has been a pioneer in the use of medically assisted treatments since founding a methadone clinic in the ’60s, and he was among the first to open a Suboxone clinic in the U.S.
Dunivin and Kaminski calculated the odds that four people so famous would die in a span of two years, and all at age 27. ... “The lesson that random events like the deaths of four musicians can ...