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How to Lower Your Child ’s Risk for Addiction

How to Lower Your Child ’s Risk for Addiction

A strong sense of self-efficacy is one of the most powerful protective factors parents can give their children. (Source: NYT Health)MedWorm Message: If you are looking to buy something in the January Sales please visit TheJanuarySales.com for a directory of all the best sales in the UK. Any income gained via affiliate links keeps MedWorm running.
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When Pot Use Starts in Teens, Drug Addiction More Likely: Study

Title: When Pot Use Starts in Teens, Drug Addiction More Likely: StudyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
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Study contributes to our understanding of how cocaine withdrawal affects brain circuits

(Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering) A new study published today reveals that during cocaine withdrawal, neurons in a brain area associated with depression connect to neurons embedded in an anti-reward system. The results could help clinicians understand addiction and enable people to better manage substance withdrawal (Source: EurekAlert! – Medicine and Health)
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A brain signature that predicts vulnerability to addiction

(CNRS) French team has just shown that within a population of rats it can predict which will become cocaine addicts. Scientists observed abnormal activity in a specific region of the brain, the subthalamic nucleus, only in future addicted individuals, and did so before they were exposed to ‘punishment’ associated with the seeking for the drug. These results also indicate that it is possible to red
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Pandemic Lockdowns Tied to More Eating Disorder Symptoms

Exercise addiction fell following lockdown, but post – COVID – 19 lockdown, exercise rates increased (Source: The Doctors Lounge – Psychiatry)
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