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(The Monster that is Marijuana A-Motivation; and people want governments to endorse this psychotropic toxin through law??!!) A woman found guilty of spiking her baby’s sippy cup with a fatal dose of fentanyl committed the crime in order to quiet the child so she could “sit back, relax and smoke marijuana,” a prosecutor said Monday. Assistant district

STONED BABIES AND UNDERACHIEVING ADULTS By Dr. Drew Edwards Physicians and medical professionals routinely warn women not to use marijuana while they are pregnant or nursing. Why? The best available scientific evidence has established that exposure to marijuana’s psychoactive constituent, THC, in utero causes neuroadaptive changes in their baby’s brain, especially in the regions where their

The message that addiction is a disease makes substance users less likely to seek help! Research finds that people with substance-use problems who read a message describing addiction as a disease are less likely to report wanting to engage in effective therapies, compared to those who read a message that addiction behaviors are subject to

Results concluded from an investigation of 4,000 Canadian school children  Researchers found cannabis more toxic for youngsters’ brains than alcohol  Persistent use of the drug seriously affected basic reasoning skills Regularly smoking cannabis can affect teenagers so severely that they end up three years behind their classmates in terms of brain development, a landmark study

An increased risk of SA was observed among early pregnancies with incident exposure to short and long-acting benzodiazepines and all specific benzodiazepine agents during early pregnancy. Insomnia, anxiety, and mood disorders are prevalent during pregnancy; clinicians should carefully evaluate the risk/benefit ratio of prescribing benzodiazepines in early pregnancy since alternative nonpharmacologic treatments exist.   For

Dangerous underage binge drinking is taking an increasing toll on Queensland’s young people, with an average of almost 20 a week ending up in the state’s hospitals. Queensland Health data shows in 2018, 975 underage drinkers ended up in Queensland emergency departments (EDs), up from 762 in 2014. “More than 200 intoxicated teens presented to

But there is a crucial difference between Getaway and other Brooklyn bars: Getaway is totally alcohol-free.  “It’s 0% as much as humanly possible, so if you’re sober and it’s an issue for you, or you don’t even want the smell of alcohol around you, you’ll be safe,” Thonis says. But it still looks and feels like a

Highlights • Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) is associated with long-term arousal dysregulation. • PCEs and controls were scanned with rfMRI at the mean ages of 14.3 and 16.6 years. • Amygdala connectivity changed oppositely with age in the PCE and control groups. • Amygdala connectivity in rest predicted emotional interference in task state. • PCE

Reports new study in Biological Psychiatry Cannabis use during pregnancy is associated with abnormal brain structure in children, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry. Compared with unexposed children, those who were prenatally exposed to cannabis had a thicker prefrontal cortex, a region of the brain involved in complex cognition, decision-making, and working memory. Author of the