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NIH Announces New Head of NIAAA After Several Years of Acting Director
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The National Institutes of Health announced the appointment of George Koob of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego as the new director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The agency has operated under an acting director for several years.
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Addex Therapeutics Ltd : Addex and NIDA enter collaboration to advance …
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"Alcohol and nicotine addiction are often comorbid, and therefore the data from this collaboration with NIDA will help us define the best clinical development path for our lead programs," said Sonia Poli, VP translational science at Addex. "We are also …
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Connecticut veterans expelled from US for minor crimes fight deportations
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After honorable discharges from the Army in 1979 and the National Guard in 1983, Arnold Giammarco sunk into a pattern of substance abuse, shoplifting and jail before turning his life around, marrying in 2010, and becoming a father. But the Italian-born …
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New Women Alcoholics: 'Looking at Red Wine Like It's Chocolate'
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Iowa has low rate of illegal drug use but still faces challenges
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“Thanks to the good work of many people, Iowa continues to make progress to prevent and reduce substance abuse and the many dangers associated with it,” Lukan said in submitting a 2014 Iowa Drug Control Strategy to Gov. Terry Branstad and the …
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With Rise Of Painkiller Abuse, A Closer Look At Heroin
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In many cases, the prescriptions are entirely legitimate, says Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz, who specializes in addiction psychiatry and is first chief medical officer at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. "Opioid medications …
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Anticonvulsant May Help Treat Cocaine Addiction
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REDLANDS: Police party patrols on lookout for alcohol abuse – Press-Enterprise (blog)
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REDLANDS: Police party patrols on lookout for alcohol abuse Press-Enterprise (blog) Redlands police, mindful of Friday night's Redlands-Redlands East Valley Smudge Pot football game, will be out in force with extra officers to enforce alcohol laws and help keep the community safe Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. “Our ideal is to have no violations … and more »

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NIH Names Dr. George Koob Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse … – National Institutes of Health (press release)
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NIH Names Dr. George Koob Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse … National Institutes of Health (press release) National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of George F. Koob, Ph.D., as Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Koob is expected to join the NIH in January 2014 …

Alcoholism Research Agency Names New Director – Science Now
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Alcoholism Research Agency Names New Director Science Now The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced yesterday that it has tapped neurobiologist George Koob of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, to direct the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), starting …

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Some Fears are true…
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Sometimes, reality is a little more than what we contemplate; human thoughts bounded by scientific rationality sometimes fail to see the obvious. What is unknown is not always divine, sometimes it may be demonic. Those who do not respect the line between demonic and divine, make stories and stories …
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Drinking Driving Pictures
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As you can also work if you ignore milk for sodas, but if you remember one of the drinking driving pictures after effects of the drinking driving pictures on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism shows that the best drinking water carefully. You may attach a filter to the drinking driving pictures in your mi …
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An Addiction Is A Compulsion Need To Use A Substance Or An Activity, To Ease Emotional Distress Or Change An Emotional State Of Being.
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