Your Brain on Booze

Your Brain on Booze
"Alcohol is an interesting drug because the distance between the dose that causes a small buzz and the dose that can kill you is not very big," says Aaron White, a neuroscientist with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Let's stumble through that short span between buzzed and blitzed by looking at the amount of alcohol present in your blood stream, which is referred to as … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

U.S. cocaine use cut by half, while marijuana consumption jumps
A new study shows that the use of cocaine dropped by half across the United States from 2006 to 2010, while use of marijuana jumped by more than 30 percent during the period. Studying illegal drug use nationally from 2000 to 2010, researchers found heroin use was fairly stable throughout the decade. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results