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HEAVY USERS OF cocaine are likely to have “significant abnormalities” in their brains, according to a new study.
Researchers found that people addicted to cocaine showed a marked decrease in the “grey matter” of their frontal lobes during brain scans, the Guardian reports. The frontal lobes are responsible for many key brain functions including decision-making and memory. Karen Ersche of the University of Cambridge, who led the research, said: “We found significant abnormalities in the brains of the cocaine users.” She added that the longer a person had been using cocaine, the more their attention span was affected.
Neuroscientists had scanned the brains of 60 people addicted to cocaine and compared them to scans of 60 non-cocaine-users. They also found that the ‘reward centres’ of the brain were enlarged in addicts, which could point to a relationship between neural composition and addiction.
Meanwhile, a separate study found that users of the drug may be suffering ‘silent’ heart damage, which causes no outward symptoms. Researchers who examined 30 long-term cocaine users found that 83 per cent had structurally damaged their hearts and 47 per cent had swelling in one ventricle. Despite this, heart function was normal in all those tested, according to US News and World Report.
Some 73 per cent of the subjects, who had been using cocaine heavily for an average of 12 years, had scarring to the heart – possibly due to an unnoticed heart attack, or damage from toxicity.
Listen we all pay for it, in the long run.
Unless she’s a cougar all men pay!
That is not only BS, but it demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the dynamics of human sexuality and human relationships.
I pitty you.
Lighten up, Buzzkillington.
Jakes great craic at a party
Is this Sheldon Cooper from the big bang theory, I pity you
Buzzkillington! Hahaha.!!
A transfer of economic benefit in exchange for coitis :)
How mick Wallace is even allowed represent anyone is beyond me, he is refusing to pay his court fine so has no respect for the laws of the land. No suprise really seeing as he also feels he’s too important to pay his taxes. A horrible individual. The embodiment of the looney left
Right is might.
I wonder did Wallace write the cost of the trip up to Ennis to his expense account?
Of course he did,him and the rest of these left dimwits love using the expense account,
Or Maybe he’s putting his tax affairs in order first!
Ah Cholly…he’s a maverick! We love mavericks in Ireland.
I want to give out about something I think is wrong.
And I see Christine above cleverly getting her retaliation in first before it kicks off!!
Some prostitutes are cleaner than some tramps that are gagging for it after the nightclub kicks people out, strange how the morals of people are influenced by drink and drugs lol.
Mick Wallace ! Tax dodging hiprocrit, living the lifestyle booze woman and a scruff bag , our for fathers would be turning in their graves . embarrassment. Put a suit on and represent ur people with a bit of dignatey. Ur not in court town now bitch.
Jaysus @Bart…. treat the English language with some dignity!
You might not pay on the day but you end up paying for it later.
My right hand saves me thousands on women per year.
Your paying for the rest of your life you only have it on hp
At least micks upfront about it. The rest of them lie through their teeth about any issues they have.
Ha ha 8% that’s laughable. I think it would be a little bit higher than that!
A lot more than are willing to admit to it … that’s for sure
The ”8% of men are sex buyers” statistic is, like the rest of that survey, pure conjecture. How many men are actually going to admit to a pollster that they paid for sex? Most wouldn’t even admit it to their mates.
And ”74% consider that women who sell sex have experienced some form of violence or abuse from sex buyers” — how would the average member of the public know this? It’s a ridiculous question which means nothing.
The fact that 30,700 people voted to remove the same-sex marriage mural worries me now about the upcoming election. It would so embarrassing and backward if the no vote got the majority.
@aaron…. voted NOT to remove it….
I think they voted NOT to remove it Aaron
Over 42,000 people signed to keep the mural, and im one of them.
https://www.change.org/p/dublin-city-council-do-not-remove-the-yes-equality-mural
Why because you want the yes vote yourself or is it because you think the yes vote is a right thing to do, as many who believe in certain ways let their own desires and what others believe to influence who they are?
Also what has the yes vote got to do with prostitution?
0 – The least with most names. Zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
Also the amount of consideration given to ordinary working Irish citizens by the past & present governments.
We ask you not to not remove the Equality mural.
This is not affecting anyone in Dublin city except for homophobic people.
We live in 2015, our city is no longer intolerant, and we should be very proud of this mural, not actively trying to take it down.
I’ve seen many murals pop up in Dublin city, even in this area, and never once have I seen a sign for planning permission.
To say this premises needs planning permission to place a mural on their own building is beyond absurd.
Please do not let this be removed unless the owner expresses that they themselves wish to remove it by their own free will, and not from backing down to city council pressure.
Married men be worse but women do pay for it too and with married men, many are just closet cases… Politicians, Priests, Gardaí etc all pay for it, I’m sure?
What percentage are honest?
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