How the brain puts the brakes on the negative impact of cocaine
Research published by Cell Press in the January 12 issue of the journal Neuron provides fascinating insight into a newly...
Cocaine users have 45 percent increased risk of glaucoma
A study of the 5.3 million men and women seen in Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics in a one-year period found...
Cocaine addicts prefer money in hand to snowy future
When a research team asked cocaine addicts to choose, hypothetically, between money now or cocaine of greater value later,...
Research offers hope for treatment of cocaine addiction
New discoveries by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) offer potential for development of a first-ever...
Current, not prior, depression predicts crack cocaine use
Women who are clinically depressed at the time they enter drug court have a substantially higher risk of using crack cocaine...
Nicotine and cocaine leave similar mark on brain after first contact
The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according to new neuroscience...
Cocaine images capture motivated attention among users
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have conducted...
Thrill-seeking females work hard for their next fix
It seems that women become addicted to cocaine more easily than men and find it harder to give up. New research published...
Vaccine blocks cocaine high in mice
Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Cornell University have produced a long-lasting...
Treatment blocks retrieval of memories associated with cocaine addiction
Two separate discoveries by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) offer potential for development of...






