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A 2026 ABCD Study preprint found that teen substance-use initiation prediction improved more when models included changing risk over time than when they simply switched from logistic regress…
Read articleAustralian coronial data show that fatal poisonings involving new psychoactive stimulants and hallucinogens were rarely single-drug events. In 70 toxicology-confirmed deaths from 2007 throug…
Read articleA 2026 rat study found that 21 days of late-adolescent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) exposure produced adult anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus maze and weaker novel object recognition …
Read articleGLP-1 drugs are usually described as appetite drugs, but a 2026 Nature mouse study mapped a more specific reward circuit: small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonists suppressed palatable-food int…
Read articleA 2026 IMAGEN stop-signal task analysis found that evidence accumulation, response caution, and go-failure probability predicted cigarette-plus-cannabis use at ages 19 and 23, while inhibiti…
Read articleA 2026 survey of 38 drug checking services found that Latin American programs faced a different operating reality than US programs: funding was a major barrier more often (80% vs. 54%), drug…
Read articleA 2026 prospective German aneurysm cohort found risky alcohol use in 4.6% of 954 intracranial aneurysm patients, and that exposure carried 2.00x higher adjusted odds of aneurysm rupture plus…
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