A researcher at Oregon State University has used a new method of combining multiple sources of data to identify counties in Oregon with high numbers of methamphetamine-related problems per capita, giving officials a new tool in fighting the illegal drug.

Southern Research Institute and Gallo Research Center today announced that peer-reviewed results from a study testing Naltrexone-derived pyridomorphinan (SoRI-9409) will be published in the December 2008 issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.

The Recovery Network launched on November 5th 2007 and is the first fully interactive, social networking internet platform in the UK to provide real time education and social assistance to anyone affected by addiction. Currently, the website is helping to support an online community of over 3,000 registered members and attracts several thousand unique users every month. SoberRecovery.com, founded in 2000, has a registered membership of over 30,000, with many thousands of unique visitors daily. And set to launch later this week is The Addiction Channel, the first All-Video Alcoholism and Addiction Resource and Referral site. In addiction to hundreds of educational videos, news stories and commentary, TheAddictionChannel.com will allow visitors to upload their own personal story of recovery so that others may identify with it and find hope and help.

Barney Frank, the House Representative, (D-Mass.) is leading an effort to pass a congressional resolution that would allow marijuana users possession of up to 3 and a half ounces of pot without being arrested. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)

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An Oregon Health & Science University study found that an experimental drug that blocks the euphoric feelings associated with drinking could prevent alcoholics from relapsing. Tamara Phillips, Ph.D. said, “We showed we could block behavior in mice that resembles this increased euphoria even after the animals had been given a lot of alcohol”. Human clinical trials of the drug could start sometime within the next year.

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