Smoking Synthetic Marijuana Tied to Stroke in Healthy, Young Adults

Smoking synthetic marijuana tied to stroke in healthy, young adults
Not identified in standard toxicology screens, spice has become the second only to natural marijuana as the most widely used illicit drug among high school seniors, according to a 2011 survey sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In … Read more on ScienceBlog.com (blog)

Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side
The farm's pharmacist would become an executive vice president of Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals, for example, and the company would contract with the former National Institute on Drug Abuse director who originally promoted the public-private … Read more on New York Times

Addex Therapeutics Ltd : Addex and NIDA enter collaboration to advance …
Geneva, Switzerland, 4 November 2013 – Addex Therapeutics (SIX: ADXN), a leading company pioneering allosteric modulation-based drug discovery and development announced today entering a collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse … Read more on 4-traders (press release)

Some older people develop sensitivities to the sulphites and tannins in wine …
Dr Gary Murray, of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health, told the WSJ that as people age, their enzyme levels also dip. Older people are often more sensitive to the effects of alcohol as they are … Read more on Daily Mail

National Drug Facts Week: Do You Have Questions? Teens Do.
Promotional Video: Youth from Montgomery County, Maryland’s TEENWORKS summer program ask questions of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) scientists….