Anti-Addiction Drug Treats Teen Sex Offenders
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NEW YORK  - Naltrexone, a drug that has  been used to treat various addictions, safely controls sexual  impulses and arousal in adolescent sexual offenders, new  research shows.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a widely used adult psychiatric drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.
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Young people are increasingly abusing a drug found in nonprescription cough medicines that can produce hallucinogenic effects, but at a risk to their well-being, researchers said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- Nearly four in five young people arrested for juvenile crimes are involved with alcohol or drugs, and few are getting treatment, a study of the juvenile justice system finds.
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A registered sex offender who served a four-year prison sentence for distributing child pornography was arrested this week on suspicion of telling an undercover detective online that he would pay for sex with a 10-year-old girl.
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Scientists pay crack cocaine addicts to test an ADHD drug to treat their addiction. They're not sure it works, but we're pretty sure the volunteers are willing.
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A national study released Thursday showed that teenagers whose friends were sexually active were more likely to smoke, drink or use illegal drugs.
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NEW YORK  - The nation's most respected  treatment programs for teen drug abusers may frequently fall  short of what's necessary for effective treatment, a new study  suggests.
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As the use of performance-enhancing substances draws concern from the halls of Congress to the offices of high school coaches, prosecutors have turned their targets into partners in a broader endeavor.
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NEW YORK  - When patients are treated for methamphetamine abuse and participate in a program that includes a "contingency management" strategy -- a system that rewards abstinence -- they are less likely to use illicit drugs compared with patients treated with usual care alone, investigators report.
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NEW YORK  - Short-term treatment with the   anticonvulsant drug, vigabatrin (gamma vinyl-GABA), appears to   be effective in reducing the need for cocaine and   methamphetamine in addicts. And the drug produced no signs of   visual field loss, researchers report in the Archives of   Ophthalmology.
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A cheap highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teens in the Dallas area over two years, and authorities hope to stop the fad before it spreads across the nation. A father who lost his 15-year-old son to "cheese" told CNN: "I should have had a better talk with him. ... All it takes is once. You get high once and you die."
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Combining drugs with talk therapy works best in treating depressed adolescents, the first large study of its kind has found.
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A teenage student has become the latest victim in Dallas to die from a powerful and highly addictive new street drug known as 'cheese'. The rise of the drug, a mixture of black tar heroin and powdered headache tablets, has been described as an epidemic.
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The use of marijuana and other illicit drugs declined slightly among teenagers in 2004, but dangerous inhalants and the highly addictive prescription painkiller Oxycontin are
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THURSDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Sex education programs do work to help discourage many teens from becoming sexually active before age 15, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The prescription drugs allegedly found in Al Gore III's possession Wednesday are favorites among young people, according to drug abuse experts, who say prescription drugs may soon overtake street drugs in popularity.