Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain

Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain – Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains addiction pharmacologically and looks at how drugs of abuse take control of the r…

Laser Light Zaps Away Cocaine Addiction

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“When we turn on a laser light in the prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex, the compulsive cocaine seeking is gone,” said Antonello Bonci, MD, scientific director of the intramural research program at the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse …
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Addiction injection: the mission to immunise drug users against dependency

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This article was taken from the March 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. … There is no definitive proof …
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Parents of N.J. addicts advocate for amendments to patient confidentiality

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And both were addicted to heroin. Drug-related deaths have risen steadily over the last 11 years, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control. In 2010, drug overdoses killed 38,329 people, making drugs a more common cause of death than …
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