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Although heroin is sometimes spoken of as a drug of the past, the truth is that it has made a comeback, especially in the United States.

Heart health has become a priority for everyone. Despite the fact that there are many factors that can cause heart problems such as being sedentary, being obese or smoking, now a team of researchers from the University Hospital of Toulouse (France) has added marijuana as an element of risk for our heart.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have detected abnormal neural activity in the parts of the brain that are activated with anticipatory functions in young occasional users - 18 to 24 years old - of stimulant drugs such as cocaine or amphetamines.

This is demonstrated by the study carried out by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and which has been published in the journal Preventive Medicine. The work suggests that thanks to social media such as Twitter, it would be possible to predict the risk of contagion of diseases such as HIV and drug-related behavior, in order to prevent new outbreaks of AIDS.

The active principle of the marijuana plant has prompted a group of scientists to develop an experiment to certify its involvement with appetite. The study has been published in the journal Nature.

According to the latest study by researchers at the University of Michigan, "teens who regularly consume energy drinks are twice as likely to also consume alcohol and drugs," the researchers say. The study has been published in the Journal of Addictive Medicine.

Some suspect that writer Lewis Carroll may have used opium or laudanum, legal in his day, to create the mind-blowing world of his novel.

Drug addiction could be the result of abnormal functioning of neurons in the frontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls decision-making, according to a study by Japanese scientists and Canadian scientists published in the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'.