Drug Abuse

Prescription drugs lead to growing problem of infant addiction
The rise of prescription drug addiction has resulted in more babies born addicted to narcotics compared to just two decades ago, when infant addiction was associated more with street-level drugs. A 2012 study published in The Journal of the American …
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Parental drug use linked to offspring addiction
A new study found marijuana use may actually impact the likelihood of addiction in future generations. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai gave adolescent male rats an amount of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the primary …
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