Marijuana Link to Lower IQ Is Disputed

Published February 4, 2013

Marijuana link to lower IQ is disputed

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Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said observational studies of people like the Duke work can't definitively demonstrate that marijuana causes irreversible effects on the brain. In an email, she said Rogeberg's paper …
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Painkillers increase risk of car crashes, study finds

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The paper notes that the increased risk from opioid-based drugs is almost certainly underestimated, for a couple of reasons. The data examined only patients who ended up in hospital for treatment after a crash and who had a legal prescription. Abuse of …
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Reckless Drinking Related to Friends

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As the authors noted, teenage years are a time of development when young people want to try new things and engage in risk-taking behaviors, including alcohol abuse. "Talk to your kids about … For the study, 1,560 adult male twins were interviewed and …
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