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The effects of long-term marijuana use on the brain

New research from the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas (USA) has concluded that the effects of habitual and prolonged use of marijuana on the brain depend on two factors: both the age of use and the length of time this use lasts. The consequences on the brain are equally alarming.

Smoking marijuana damages the heart

A recent study associates marijuana with an increased risk of stress cardiomyopathy.

Decipher the molecular structure of the 'marijuana receptor'

Revealing the configuration of this marijuana receptor will help enrich the development of new drugs and better understand their risks.

Can you be addicted to sex like alcohol or tobacco?

Hypersexuality is a disorder characterized by unbridled sexual desire that is stimulated very easily, usually through sight. It is more common to refer to it as "sex addiction", although this terminology is not correct, since the scientific community attributes this evil to compulsive behavior and not to physical and psychological dependence. A new study has completely discarded this popular expression. Researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) have determined that the brains of those who suffer from hypersexuality do not act in the same way as those of drug addicts.

A single dose of cocaine is enough to alter the brain

More consequences of its consumption.

A narcotic like morphine but without side effects

Opioids are one of the most commonly prescribed pain relievers but also the deadliest.

This is how cocaine works in the brain

A team of researchers from Washington State University (USA) has discovered that drugs "hijack" the brain.

This is how LSD affects the brain

They present the first brain scans of the impact of the drug on our thinking organ.

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