Illicit Drugs and Mental Illness Take a Huge Global Toll

Illicit Drugs And Mental Illness Take A Huge Global Toll
The results stand out from previous disease rankings — and conventional thinking — which tend to focus on mortality as the most important metric. While mental illness and substance abuse do lead to premature deaths, the authors say, that's hard to …
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Psychedelic Drugs Linked to Lower Risk of Mental Illness
According to a new study published PLOS One, there is no link between the use of psychedelic drugs—specifically LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and peyote—and a range of mental health problems. In fact, the study reports, psychedelic use is associated …
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How Brains Remember Pleasure: Drug Addiction Different from Reward Memories
"We observed an important distinction, no in circuitry, but instead in the epigenetic regulation of that circuitry between natural reward responses and those that occur downstream with drugs of abuse or psychiatric illness," said Jeremy Day, one of the …
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Martin Andresen, PhD speaks on economics and drug addiction. – Global Civic Policy Society Speed Lunch features speakers on drug addiction and mental illness.