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Cannabis and Schizophrenia: Blowing Smoke?

Among patients with schizophrenia, those who had histories of cannabis use had better neurocognitive scores than nonusers.

Treatment of Opioid Dependence: In the HIV Clinic or Out?

Patients treated in the clinic with buprenorphine-naloxone had closer HIV follow-up and better outcomes related to substance abuse than patients referred to methadone maintenance programs.

Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain and β-Blockers

β-blockers might not be contraindicated after all.

Supervised Injectable Heroin After Failure of Oral Methadone Maintenance

Compared with addicts who received methadone therapy, longtime addicts who received supervised heroin doses were less likely to use street heroin.

HIV Prevention and Treatment Services in Injection-Drug Users

The provision of such services varies widely across countries but is rarely if ever optimal.

Young Women Have Few Sequelae from Early Puberty

But teenage promiscuity in early maturers raises the risk for sexually transmitted diseases and hepatitis.

Earlobes and Cocaine

Levamisole kills worms in dogs and turns your earlobes purple — what's not to like?

Bipolar Disorder plus Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Impulsive Storm

Talk about impulsivity! Comorbid bipolar disorder and antisocial personality disorder

Tan Addiction

Some chronic indoor tanners have what looks like a substance-related disorder.

Endogenous Opiates and Mood Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder

An imaging study uncovers a role for the µ-opioid system in these patients' experience of psychic pain.

Addicted to Food

A study in rats reveals dysfunction in the reward system with unlimited access to rich foods, similar to cocaine addictions.

Emergency Department Use of Droperidol in Adolescents

Droperidol was safe and effective when used in teens and young adults.

Factors Affecting Survival During Alcohol Withdrawal

In a Spanish hospital, 7% of patients died during 539 episodes of withdrawal.

Starting Treatment with Both Sertraline and Naltrexone for Depressed Alcoholics

Does combined treatment for these comorbid disorders make sense?

Drinking Affects Campus Sexual Violence

Rates of campus violence, especially rape, are associated with amounts of student drinking.

Methadone Isomers and QTc Interval

QTc appears shorter with (<$EMPH_O>R<$EMPH_C>)-methadone.

Excess Weight Raises Risk for Liver Disease

And heavy drinking adds synergistically to the risk.

Are µ-Opioid Receptor Variants Associated with Response to Citalopram?

. . . or to placebo?

Pipe and Cigar Smoking Are Associated with Airflow Obstruction

Risk isn't limited to cigarette smoking.

Lack of Care for HIV-Infected Crack Cocaine Users

Twenty percent of the HIV-infected crack cocaine users hospitalized at two U.S. sites reported that they had never received outpatient HIV care.

Helping Recovering Cocaine Users Sleep

Modafinil may improve the sleep of chronic cocaine users, but does this improvement affect overall outcomes?

Prenatal Effects of Cocaine: An Animal Study

Cocaine in macaque mothers reaches the fetal brain.

Smoking Cessation After Diagnosis of Early-Stage Lung Cancer Improves Outcomes

It's never too late to stop smoking.

Extended Treatment with Transdermal Nicotine Is Effective

Abstinence from smoking was more likely with longer use of the patch.

Sudden Infant Death and Parental Psychopathology

Hospitalization of a parent is associated with elevated risk for SIDS in this study from Sweden.

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