Researchers in the U.S. found that coffee drinkers seem to have a lower risk of developing Parkinson Disease. A feature about the Healthy Options service in London. In the U.K. two large clinical trials of cannabis as medicine are about to get underway. A French study has found that the total cost of alcohol abuse beats tobacco and illicit drugs. The cravings for nicotine can last much, much longer than has been anticipated in the past.
Some people still have cravings years after they've given up smoking.
Results from the Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts suggest that light alcohol consumption does not increase the risk of breast cancer. Smoking in bars has been made illegal in California. Dr. Mark Eisner of the University of California San Francisco decided to look at the before and after effects. In his study he has used bar workers to investigate. One of the United States' leading drug researchers talks about the fundamental nature of addiction.