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.

The University of Texas School of Public Health conducted a survey which examined alcohol abuse and dependence among Hispanic males in the United States. The study will be expanded to Mexican males living along the U.S.-Mexico border and is supported by a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (NIAAA)

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Veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars are increasingly turning to alcohol when they return home to cope with the lingering stress of their combat experiences, sometimes with tragic consequences.

(Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)

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A study carried out by the Universities of Bonn and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute concluded that a specific gene variant may cause women to be more susceptible to alcoholism.  The gene, located in the endorphin metabolism, is altered more often in women alcoholics than in non-alcoholic women. The endorphins seem to play an important role in the amount of alcohol consumed in mice as well, particularly among females.

 

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