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The brain disease model of addiction captures only one part of a remarkably intricate causal story that also involves personality, motivation, environmental, and social dimensions.

That's a major hurdle in stopping the overdose crisis Trauma is one of the biggest risk factors for addiction — but trauma-centered treatments are lacking By Elizabeth Hlavinka ...

A major part of their research involves the use of non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging modalities in rodent models of psychostimulant exposure (e.g., diffusion, functional and manganese ...

Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder that has been characterized by (1) compulsion to seek and take the drug, (2) loss of control in limiting intake, and (3) emergence of a negative ...

Leavitt Partners Joins National Non-Profit, Facing Addiction with NCADD and Remedy Partners to Redesign the Structure and Payment of Addiction Treatment and Recovery Services WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS ...

Banning screens is often not an option. So Science News spoke with experts studying screen use and addiction in teens to help families navigate this complex issue.

The 50-year-old policy of the “war on drugs” must now be declared a failure. Every measurable outcome is worse, despite all the time, money and effort spent: more drug users, more traum… ...

Worldwide, someone dies from drug or alcohol addiction every four minutes. Now, researchers at Huntsman Mental Health Institute at University of Utah have been selected by Wellcome Leap to research a ...

Realistic rodent model of drug addiction Ingenuity, not habit, sustains addiction in rats Date: November 20, 2017 Source: Society for Neuroscience ...

This model has been responsible for major advances in the way that society treats addicted people. But this perspective is also limited, and it is time for us to move beyond it.