HBNS.org - Parents who have regular meals with their adolescent children - especially girls - might help lessen the chances they will start drinking or smoking later in their teen years, according to new research.
Past studies have shown that family meals provide many benefits, including offering a venue for parents to communicate with their adolescents [...]

MUSC.edu - Individuals with alcohol dependence are offered hope through a recent study of Topamax (topiramate ) by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina.
In a landmark study, MUSC researchers working with investigators at the University of Virginia Health System and elsewhere have found that topiramate, an FDA-approved medication, not only decreases heavy drinking, [...]

Harvard.edu - Heavy alcohol use, or binge drinking , among college students in the United States is tied to conditions in the college environment. That is one of the key findings from research conducted by researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS), a landmark 14-year study that surveyed more than [...]

Research by a Davidson College neuroscientist and students demonstrates that the benefits of regular exercise include a lowered tendency to become addicted to illegal drugs, and they suspect the exercise benefit may be from increasing release of dopamine in the brain.
The online version of the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence published this week the results [...]

JAMA / Archives - Long-term, heavy use of marijuana (cannabis) may be associated with structural abnormalities in areas of the brain known as the hippocampus and amygdala, according to a report in the June 2008 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Conflicting evidence exists regarding the long-term effects of marijuana use. “Although growing literature suggests that [...]

Adelaide.edu.au - A University of Adelaide study has revealed that the dangerous body temperature dysregulation effects of the club drug ecstasy are compounded when taken in warm environments.
Preclinical research undertaken by Pharmacology PhD student Emily Jaehne shows that ecstasy deaths, which are invariably related to elevated body temperature, may be related to drug users’ failure [...]