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View Original Article Fri, 16 May 2008 12:00:00 PDT
As many as 39% of the approximately 84,000 injection drug users living in Spain are HIV-positive, and as many as 73% are living with hepatitis C, according to a recent report by the International Harm Reduction Association, Spain's El País reports. Gerry Stimson, executive director of IHRA, on Monday during the

View Original Article Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:00 PDT
Researchers from the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne have identified a factor that may contribute towards the development of heroin addiction by manipulating the adenosine A2A receptor, which plays a major role in the brain's 'reward pathway'.Using mice specifically bred without the adenosine A2A receptor, Prof Andrew Lawrence and his team showed that these mice had a reduced desire to self-administer morphine; heroin is converted to morphine in the body.

View Original Article Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:00 PDT
A variety of middle-class people are making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana to enhance their leisure activities, a University of Alberta study shows.

View Original Article Sat, 17 May 2008 10:42:55 GMT
South Africa is at high risk of spiralling sex-addiction rates, a world authority has claimed.

View Original Article Sat, 17 May 2008 04:09:20 GMT
Former West Coast Eagles captain and Brownlow medallist Ben Cousins today said he had ?no choice? regarding his drug abuse because his addiction was an illness.

View Original Article Sat, 17 May 2008 01:58:55 GMT
The definition of addiction is as follows: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.