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Drugs Developed To Treat Addiction May Also Benefit People Who Are Habitual Overeaters (Medical News Today)
Some of the same brain mechanisms that fuel drug addiction in humans accompany the emergence of compulsive eating behaviors and the development of obesity in animals, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. The study, conducted by researchers at the Scripps Research Institute, was released today in the online ...
Study: Certain foods may cause cocaine-like addiction (13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads)
VIRGINIA BEACH -- "The life that I was living was too painful," says Mary of her addiction. "I could no longer ignore it and say, 'It's just the way I am.' I needed something. I needed to live." The addiction wasn't drugs. The addiction wasn't alcohol. Mary was hooked on food, following binging sessions with purging. 14 years ago, she found her way to Overeaters Anonymous. "I would eat food at ...
Heroin Addiction: How to Help (ABC News)
Heroin Addiction: How To Help Drug addiction - Addiction - Obesity - Health - Junk food
Junk Food 'Addiction' May Be Real (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Junk Food 'Addiction' May Be Real Category: Health News Created: 3/28/2010 2:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 3/29/2010
CRPF organises drug de-addiction camp in Jammu (New Kerala)
Kathua (J-K), Mar 30 : In its special drive against drug abuse, the 121 battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is organising a seven-day drug de-addiction camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua District.
Lancaster fights back against addiction (WIVB Buffalo)
No community is immune to the plague of drug or alcohol addiction, but one local community is concentrating on prevention.
Junk-food addiction may change brain (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
Compulsive eating triggers some of the same addiction-like responses in the brain as heroin, a study on rats suggests.
Joplin gets new center to treat prescription drug addiction (KFJX Pittsburg)
JOPLIN, MO. - Behavioral Health Group opened the new Opioid Treatment Center on Monday in Joplin. Opioid addiction is a chronic and progressive medical disease. Opioids are used primarily in prescription
Compulsive Eating That Leads To Obesity Has Similar Biology To Drug Addiction (Medical News Today)
US researchers working with rats have shown for the first time that the compulsion to overeat that leads to obesity has the same biological mechanism as seen in addiction to drugs like cocaine and heroin abuse: it affects the brain's pleasure circuitry in a similar way. You can read about the study, conducted by Scripps Research Associate Professor Paul J Kenny and graduate student Paul M ...
Junk food addiction may be clue to obesity: study (C-Health)
Dieting can be as hard as kicking a heroin addiction, new research suggests.