A selection of health policy stories from Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota. Providence Journal: Chafee's $43-Million Cut In Medicaid Program Touches Many Sectors Of Health Care ...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
American adults who use illicit drugs are much more likely to think about suicide than those in the general population, a new federal government survey says. Latest Mental Health News City Parks Boost Mood, Study Suggests Health Tip: Stop ...
U.S. adults who use illicit drugs are far more likely than the general adult population to seriously consider suicide, health officials say. A report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the U.S. ...
School drug tests don't deter teens from smoking marijuana, but creating a positive school environment might be effective, a new study suggests. About 20 percent of U.S. high schools have drug testing, but this approach is controversial ...
More than a week after marijuana prohibition came to an end in Colorado, the joy has faded as residents adjust to the new normal of having the most liberal marijuana laws in the U.S. Long lines are gone from the 37 -- and counting -- pot ...
In experiments with rodents, scientists have discovered that a steroid hormone blunts the effects of marijuana, virtually eliminating its high. The hormone, pregnenolone, occurs naturally in the body. In the laboratory, it worked by ...
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In the largest ever assessment of substance use among people with severe psychiatric illness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Southern California have found that rates of smoking, ...
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Slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. anesthesiology residents who began their training between 1975 and 2009 had a substance abuse disorder during their residency, a new study reveals. Researchers examined data gathered from nearly 45,000 ...
United States Army researchers have found that a bio-nanomaterial can help solve a public health issue involving people showing up in emergency rooms with dangerous reactions to marijuana substitutes sold at gas stations and head shops, ...
Expectant mothers who smoke marijuana may triple their risk for a stillbirth, a new study suggests. The risk is also increased by smoking cigarettes, using other legal and illegal drugs and being exposed to secondhand smoke. Stillbirth ...
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Shrunken structures inside the brains of heavy marijuana users might explain the stereotype of the "pothead," brain researchers report. Northwestern University scientists studying teens who were marijuana smokers or former smokers found ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments: Teens Opting for Real Pot While U.S. teens are staying away from synthetic marijuana, they're smoking more of the natural version, a new survey of more than 40,000 ...
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Heavy pot users -- smoking marijuana daily for three years -- had abnormal changes in their brain structures related to working memory, U.S. researchers say. Lead study author Matthew Smith, an assistant research professor at Northwestern ...
Nearly 1-in-100 anesthesiology residents entering primary training from 1975 to 2009 developed substance use disorder during training, U.S. researchers say. Dr. David Warner of Mayo Clinic's Department of Anesthesiology and the American ...
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