Drug Addiction Breaks Your Glutamatergic Synaptic Machinery

drug addiction breaks your glutamatergic synaptic machinery – Drug addiction causes profound damage to the brain’s glutamatergic machinery in the nucleus accumbens area which causes it to be less responsive. The protein…

This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn't it used more?

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When we consider oxycodone and any number of other medications that cause problems, buprenorphine is probably not the drug of their choice for most opiate users. HP: When Suboxone was first marketed, the manufacturers argued that it had very limited …
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GPs told to report data on patients addicted to prescription drugs

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A report by the House of Commons Home Office Affairs committee said GPs should report anonymised data on patients being treated for prescription drug addiction to a central monitoring database. Practices should also keep … They also called for CCGs …
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Heroin in Torrington: Overdose death numbers prompt response from city, state …

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TORRINGTON >> Officials are looking at ways to stop the spread of heroin, the drug which has led to the deaths of five people and was investigated as the cause of least five more fatalities in the city this year. Police have confirmed five … Without …
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