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”. [...]

Just the sight, smell or taste of somones favorite drink can kick in exceptionally strong cravings. These cravings generally play the lead when alcoholics who hae been abstinent relapse. The alcoholic will associate this response with the positive effects of drinking rather than the negative effects.
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The New York Times on recent increases in treatment admissions for 40+ year old women:The actress Tatum O’Neal was arrested recently on charges of buying crack cocaine from a man on the street near her New York City home. She is a 44-year-old mother of three. She has spent years in and out of drug abuse treatment (which she chronicled in her 2004 memoir), and according to her publicist she will continue to “attend meetings” for drug and alcohol abuse.Ms. O’Neal illustrates a disturbing trend among those being admitted to substance abuse treatment services: a growing percentage of older women are being treated for harder drugs.Data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration revealed that the total number of admissions to treatment services from 1996 to 2005 (the last year for which detailed data are available) stayed about the same among people under 40, but jumped 52 percent among those 40 and older. Of the 40 and older group, the rise in admissions among men was 44 percent. Among women, it was 82 percent. (Source: Addiction and Recovery News)

Love for her unborn child got Vanessa Roulette to quit cocaine for nearly a year back in 2005. Then the shame of smoking cocaine in front of her young son that got her to give it up again in 2007, hopefully this time for good. And finally, the depth of her caring or other young [...]

Federal authorities may raid California’s medical-marijuana clinics with regularity, but that hasn’t prevented the programs from generating $2 billion in annual sales and $100 million in state tax revenue. (Source: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News)
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