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Canada-US-Italian research team develops a cocaine biosensor inspired from nature Since the beginning of time, living organisms have developed ingenious mechanisms to monitor their environment. As part of an international study, a team of researchers has adapted some of these natural mechanisms to detect specific molecules such as cocaine more accurately and quickly. Their work may greatly facilitate the rapid screening—less than five minutes—of many drugs, infectious diseases, and...
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL), a major manufacturer of specialty and intermediate chemicals used in a broad range of industries, will issue its fourth quarter and full year 2012 earnings report on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at approximately 8:00 a.m. ET, prior to the open of the market. The Company will hold its fourth quarter and full year 2012 earnings conference call to review the financial and operational performance highlights on...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A veterinary deworming agent, levamisole, found in both cocaine and heroin has caused infectious diseases and skin lesions requiring emergency care. A case series published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine calls levamisole-contaminated cocaine "an important emerging public health concern" in view of the nearly two million cocaine users in the United States ("Passive Multistate Surveillance for Neutropenia after Use...
Medication development efforts for cocaine dependence have yet to result in an FDA approved treatment. The powerful rewarding effects of cocaine, the profound disruptive impact of cocaine dependence on one's lifestyle, and the tendency of cocaine to attract people who make poor life choices and then exacerbate impulsive behavior all make cocaine a vexing clinical condition. In this battle, many candidate pharmacotherapies have been tested, but none have succeeded sufficiently to be adopted...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online I said to a guy, “Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful,” and he said, “Because it intensifies your personality.” I said, “Yes, but what if you're an [expletive deleted]?” Bill Cosby, in his seminal stand up performance ‘Bill Cosby: Himself’, talked about what it is about cocaine that attracts an often loyal audience that uses the drug recreationally. When cocaine is ingested or...
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL), a major manufacturer of specialty and intermediate chemicals used in a broad range of industries, will issue its third quarter earnings report on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at approximately 8:00 a.m. ET, prior to the open of the market. The Company will hold its third quarter earnings conference call to review the financial and operational performance highlights on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, at 2:00 p.m....
Report also shows reductions in binge and heavy drinking among underage youth WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of people aged 18 to 25 who used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes in the past month declined 14 percent -- from 2.0 million in 2010 to 1.7 million in 2011 -- the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced today, during the 23(rd) annual national observance of National Recovery Month....
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Scripps Research Institute recently revealed that a two-drug combination could possibly help those battling cocaine addiction. The combination made up of naltrexone and buprenoprine, two existing pharmaceutical drugs, is a therapy that would help reduce individuals’ want for cocaine and also lessen their feelings of withdrawal. Scientists believed that the therapy is a step forward as there are currently no...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Cocaine is presently the most abused major stimulant drug in America. It has also become the drug most frequently involved in emergency department visits. Now researchers are saying the solution to the addiction problem could be in the form of enzymes. Researchers from the University of Kentucky have designed and discovered a series of highly efficient enzymes that effectively metabolize cocaine. These high-activity cocaine-metabolizing enzymes could potentially...
Researchers from the University of Kentucky have designed and discovered a series of highly efficient enzymes that effectively metabolize cocaine. These high-activity cocaine-metabolizing enzymes could potentially prevent cocaine from producing physiological effects, and could aid in the treatment of drug dependency. The results of this study by Chang-Guo Zhan et al are published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology. The effectiveness of the enzymes' work was evaluated through...
