I-Science: NIDA’s Look Into the Risks of Designer Drugs

Published December 19, 2013

I-Science: NIDA’s Look into the Risks of Designer Drugs – NIDA’s I-Science videos give viewers a glimpse of scientists through the “eyes”, and hand held lens of NIDA specialists. This interview gives a personal pers…

Synthetic Cannabis Linked to Illness

Filed under: national institute on drug abuse

Monitoring the Future, a University of Michigan longitudinal study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has studied secondary school drug and cannabis use since 1975. In an update report released Wednesday, usage of synthetic cannabis among …
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Teens report increasingly lax attitude about marijuana use

Filed under: national institute on drug abuse

Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said this increase is quite worrying because of the potential effects on developing teenagers' learning and memory. "They are more sensitive to the effects in the brain," Dr. Volkow …
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