Video game addiction is that form of addiction that is normally seen to affect the players who are on the video games. This is known as video overuse. There have been many instances which have been reported and in this the users use the game compulsively and separate themselves from the family and the friends. These people don’t have any kind of social contact and focus only on achieving the game results. This causes a lot of mood swings and also a lot of imagination. There is...

Addiction to alcohol and drugs and rising intense obsession with internet and face book, these are things which are rampant in the present jet age. Anything used excessively is harmful and leads to addiction without which we cannot survive and makes us feel miserable, tense, stressed, angry, bitter if we are cannot lay our hands on them or are inaccessible. Today in ratio calculations- from 100 – 80 percent are addicted to alcohol and 20 percent to drug addiction, between the...

As per Penn State College of Medicine researchers, Binge eating’s history consuming huge amounts of food in small period of time might make a person more likely to show other addiction-like behaviors such as substance abuse. In short term, this discovery might shed some light on aspects, which promote addiction, relapse and substance abuse. In long term, it might help clinicians treat individuals suffering from the disease. Ms. Patricia Sue Grigson, Ph.D., professor at...

As per the report published in British Medical Journal (BMJ), hospitalizations, deaths and alcohol consumption will be significantly reduced as a result of United Kingdom Government plans for imposing a minimum price of 40p alcohol’s per unit. Mr. John Appleby, Chief Economist at King’s Fund stated that plans by reducing consuming of alcohol by 2.4 percent, result in an 1149 reduction in deaths and prevent 38,900 hospitalizations. Additionally, John notice that results...

The officials of Food and Drug Administration formerly complained that Aeroshot site implied that users of Aeroshot could inhale caffeine, but its manufacturing companies have since explained that the device is put into the mouth and produces a slightly puff of powder, which is not inhaled and swallowed into the lungs. The Food and Drug Administration also didn’t like the wording on Aeroshot label, which it isn’t intended for kids less than 12, and that students might find the...

An online problem of European Heart Journal reports which a study of nearly 2000 men in America has demonstrated that men who survived a first heart attack and consume alcohol in temperance have lower risk of dying from any other cause unlike non-drinkers or heart disease. The most recent results from United States Health Professionals Follow-up Study, a potential study of around 51,529 American male health professionals, demonstrates that any-cause mortality risk for men who survived...

In preclinical studies, examiners at Astraea Therapeutics and SRI International have currently evaluated the role of a new drug receptor target, which shows promise for treatment of drug addiction. This latent new drug target belongs to the class of receptors known as nAChRs (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors). Findings from these mutual studies were currently showcased at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in a study “AT-1001, a Highly Selective alpha3beta4 nicotinic...

Eat as much as you want, stop exercising and still lose weight? It sounds unfeasible, but Italian and UC Irvine researchers have found that by blocking the natural, marijuana-like chemical regulating energy metabolism. For creating this hypermetabolic state, Daniele Piomelli, a UCI pharmacology professor and his colleagues engineered neurons in forebrains of mice for limiting production of endocannabinoid compound known as 2-AG. All mammalian brains comprise 2-AG that the researchers...