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Article: Potential Medication Can Reduce Effects Of Marijuana.(SR141716 cannabinoid receptor antagonist)
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- April 27, 2001
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2001 APR 27 - (NewsRx Network) -- Scientists at the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, Maryland, have confirmed for the first time in humans that chemically blocking the body's cannabinoid receptors can significantly reduce the effects of smoked marijuana.
The study appears in the April 14,2001, issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Cannabinoid receptors - proteins on the surface of brain cells - are most dense in brain regions involved in thinking and memory, attention, and control of movement. Their exact role in humans is not well understood, but animal studies have shown that cannabinoid ...