Aaron Carter was subject of welfare check weeks before death
Aaron Carter was the subject of a welfare check just weeks before his death. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call requesting to...
Drug Abuse
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Matthew Perry: How to tell which drugs I used during ‘Friends’
Matthew Perry writes in his forthcoming memoir that his changing appearance throughout 10 seasons of “Friends” serves as a dead giveaway for which drugs he...
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Study reveals the trends in recreational ketamine use and availability in the U.S.
Recreational ketamine use and availability of the drug have increased in recent years, but it remains an uncommon drug used by less than 1 percent...
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Digital spatial profiling of individual glomeruli from HIV and COVID-19 patients
Collapsing glomerulopathy (CG) is a type of kidney injury that occurs in focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). FSGS is a disease condition in which scar...
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How Matthew Perry’s ‘hellish’ colostomy helped him kick his drug addiction
Matthew Perry said having to use a colostomy bag — an external bag for feces to be stored — for a year helped him kick...
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Case Western Reserve secures $16 million to understand the relation between substance use and HIV
The use of opioids, methamphetamines, cocaine and other stimulants is the second-most-common cause of exposure to HIV among those in the United States diagnosed with...
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Steve-O begs Bam Margera to get sober while bracing for news of his death
Steve-O begged friend Bam Margera to “choose recovery” amid his years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. After Margera went on a social media rant...
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Neuronal circuitry that may play a key role in mediating pain-induced anhedonia discovered
A new study published today in Nature Neuroscience has uncovered neuronal circuitry in the brain of rodents that may play an important role in mediating...
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UTEP to develop new initiative to reduce HIV in people who use drugs in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border
The University of Texas at El Paso will develop a sustainable public health intervention to suppress human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in people who use drugs...
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Supportive relationships, healthy behaviors may have a positive effect on adolescents’ mental health during the pandemic
Longitudinal survey data of more than 3,000 adolescents ages 11-14 recorded before and during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 found that...
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Study finds significant surge in liver transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis during the pandemic
Registrations for the national organ transplant waiting list related to alcoholic hepatitis as well as the number of deceased donor liver transplants for the inflammatory...
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‘America’s Got Talent,’ ‘The Voice’ alum Nolan Neal’s cause of death revealed
Nolan Neal, who competed on both “America’s Got Talent” and “The Voice,” died after ingesting a fatal combination of drugs, Page Six can exclusively reveal....