Articles about 'drugs'

New research suggests chronic cocaine use causes profound metabolic changes, reducing the body’s ability to store fat.

Research provides unique insight into the often misunderstood world of addiction.

A mechanism regulating our sensation of cold has been identified.

In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Dr Victoria Harris highlights that criminalisation may not be the only route.

Research shows chronic users’ brains age dramatically faster than their non-drug using peers.

Cambridge-led research documents rises in HIV, heroin use, prostitution, homicides and suicides in the wake of the Greek financial crisis.

New drug could treat mixed-lineage leukaemia (MLL).

A new study reveals how drug reimbursement policy in Poland is leaving gaping loopholes for pharmaceutical firms to exploit, raising questions about other, post-communist, EU member states.

Drug abuse is probably linked to an in-built tendency to act without thinking, as shown by studies of siblings of chronic stimulant users, a leading neuroscientist will claim this week.

Imagine a one-off cure for drug addiction or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) instead of today’s life-long therapy regimes.