MDMA, which has been made criminally illegal worldwide, is taken most commonly in pill form.
Academics at the University of Hertfordshire’s Health and Human Sciences Research Institute Showcase warn of the dangers of ecstasy.
In the wake of a meeting of the government’s advisory body on drugs to discuss the harmful effects of ecstasy Professor Keith Laws and Professor Fabrizio Schifano revealed research findings about the drug at the Showcase on Tuesday 21 October. [continue reading…]
She seemed to be everywhere. Last fall, actress Jenny McCarthy could be found on a host of American talk shows, including Larry King Live, The View and The Oprah Winfrey Show promoting her book Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism. During the Oprah appearance, she made several controversial claims, including the idea that vaccines had a role to play in causing her son’s autism. “The nurse gave (Evan) the shot… and soon thereafter—boom—the soul’s gone from his eyes,” she said.
Seen by millions of Oprah viewers, hers was a compelling story, [continue reading…]
In a prospective study of over 1800 interviewed young Finnish twins, early-onset depressive disorders at age 14 significantly predicted daily smoking, smokeless tobacco use, frequent illicit drug use, frequent alcohol use and recurrent intoxication three years later, even among those adolescents who were not users at baseline. [continue reading…]
Parents of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are nearly twice as likely to divorce by the time the child is 8 years old than parents of children without ADHD, the first study to look at this issue in depth has shown.
Moreover, among couples in the study who were divorced, marriages involving children with ADHD ended sooner than marriages with no ADHD-diagnosed children. [continue reading…]
