New antidepressants can lift depression and suicidal thoughts fast, but don’t expect magic cures
Drugs like ketamine can relieve depression symptoms, including suicidal thoughts, within hours, but they also carry risks that patients need to understand.
Dec. 21, 2020 • ~8 min
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Cannabis: the problem with defining products around THC content
Out of the 400 plus chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, CBD and THC are only the most well-known, and researched, cannabinoids.
Dec. 21, 2020 • ~8 min
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Oregon just decriminalized all drugs – here's why voters passed this groundbreaking reform
Possessing heroin, cocaine, meth and other drugs for personal use is no longer a criminal offense in Oregon. The idea is to get people with problem drug use help, not punishment.
Dec. 10, 2020 • ~10 min
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College-age kids and teens are drinking less alcohol – marijuana is a different story
Gen Z is breaking stereotypes, but there are still some worrying trends when it comes to substance abuse.
Nov. 19, 2020 • ~6 min
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College-age kids and teens are drinking less alcohol – but something else is rising
Gen Z is breaking stereotypes, but there are still some worrying trends when it comes to substance abuse.
Nov. 19, 2020 • ~6 min
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College-age kids are drinking less alcohol – but smoking more marijuana
Gen Z is breaking stereotypes in some areas, but the number of young adults using both alcohol and marijuana is also rising, raising concerns about a future surge in substance abuse problems.
Nov. 19, 2020 • ~6 min
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What’s in your medicine may surprise you – a call for greater transparency about inactive ingredients
There are ingredients in your pills other than the one designed to treat your ailments. Those unnamed ingredients can alter how you respond to a medicine or even make you sick.
Sept. 11, 2020 • ~7 min
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When Trump pushed hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of prescriptions followed despite little evidence that it worked
When news reports tout a drug, people get interested, even if the benefits are unproven. Patient hopes, requests and demands can easily turn into real prescriptions in their doctor's office.
July 9, 2020 • ~10 min
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Coronavirus and cancer hijack the same parts in human cells to spread – and our team identified existing cancer drugs that could fight COVID-19
Kinases are cellular control switches. When they malfunction, they can cause cancer. The coronavirus hijacks these kinases to replicate, and cancer drugs that target them could fight COVID-19.
June 28, 2020 • ~10 min
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We found and tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus: Results show promising leads and a whole new way to fight COVID-19
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, identified nine existing drugs that show promise to treat COVID-19. The proteins they target haven't been tried before.
April 30, 2020 • ~10 min
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