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Severe Mental Illness Tied to Substance Use: Which Comes First? – Decoded Science

Severe Mental Illness Tied to Substance Use: Which Comes First? – Decoded Science

Severe Mental Illness Tied to Substance Use: Which Comes First?
Decoded Science
Do you need another reason to stop using alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or illegal drugs? New research indicates that substance abuse may lead to serious mental conditions such as schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder with psychosis. With the help of a

Drug Abuse – Google News

 

Severe Mental Illness Tied to Higher Rates of Substance Use – Medical Xpress

Severe mental illness tied to higher rates of substance use – Medical Xpress

Severe mental illness tied to higher rates of substance use
Medical Xpress
People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk for substance use, especially cigarette smoking, and protective factors usually associated with lower rates of substance use do not exist in severe mental

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Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News

 

Teen drug abuse in the UAE has wider impact – The National

Teen drug abuse in the UAE has wider impact
The National
That makes the revelation, reported in The National yesterday, that children in the UAE as young as seven are “self-medicating” by taking prescription drugs without medical supervision extremely worrying. The UAE in general does have a tendency to 

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Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News

 

People, Places and Adolescent Substance Use: Multiple Dimensions of Drug Use – the Almagest

People, places and adolescent substance use: Multiple dimensions of drug use – The Almagest

People, places and adolescent substance use: Multiple dimensions of drug use
The Almagest
Addiction is not just biological – there is a social dimension to understand. And how a teenager's friends, favorite hangouts and feelings and moods all interact to influence substance use can say a lot. This is the focus of research by Virginia

Drug Addiction – Google News

 

Nigella Lawson ate lots of chocolate after drug admissions, 40-lb weight loss – Examiner.com


Examiner.com

Nigella Lawson ate lots of chocolate after drug admissions, 40-lb weight loss
Examiner.com
Nigella allegedly agreed to disregard the Grillo sisters' thieving as long as they kept silent about Nigella's longtime drug addiction. The sisters were acquitted in December 2013, but Lawson was forced to admit at trial that she had done marijuana and

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Severe Mental Illness Tied to Higher Rates of Substance Use – National Institutes of Health (Press Release)

Severe mental illness tied to higher rates of substance use – National Institutes of Health (press release)


National Institutes of Health (press release)

Severe mental illness tied to higher rates of substance use
National Institutes of Health (press release)
People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk for substance use, especially cigarette smoking, and protective factors usually associated with lower rates of substance use do not exist in severe mental

and more »

Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News

 

These Retirement Stats Paints A Troubling Picture – Financial Advisor Magazine

These Retirement Stats Paints A Troubling Picture
Financial Advisor Magazine
Figures released by the U.S.-based National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in 2011 showed that the percentage of Americans age 50 to 59 who reported having used illicit or prescription drugs more than doubled, to 6.2 percent from 2.7 percent, between 

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Severe Mental Illness Tied to Higher Rates of Substance Use

Severe mental illness tied to higher rates of substance use
( NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse ) People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk for substance use, especially cigarette smoking, and protective factors usually associated with lower rates of substance use do not exist in severe mental illness, according to a new study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

Alcoholism Responsible for Poor Education Standards

Alcoholism responsible for poor education standards
The District Director of Education in charge of the Kassena-Nankana West District, Mr Augustine Bugase, has said alcoholism and drug abuse among the youth was one of the major causes of fallen standards of education in the District. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

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People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk for substance use, especially cigarette smoking, and protective factors usually associated with lower rates of substance use do not exist in severe mental illness, according to a new study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results