Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

This article explores the complex interplay between drug addiction and HIV, highlighting how integrated harm reduction ...

Credit: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2025.107043 ...

Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards . This includes eating tasty meals, drinking something refreshing, sexual ...

Emerging treatments for addiction ... example, we have previously shown that the network of cells carrying the memory of seeking cocaine are mostly distinct from those linked to seeking sugar. Based ...

Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs. Disentangling them requires understanding how memories are formed.

The model was trained on a vast trove of biological information—including more than 128,000 whole genomes and 9.3 trillion nucleotides from 100,000 species from across the tree of life ...

Methods: A cross-sectional sample of healthy, NTP-using late adolescents/emerging adults (N = 86) ages 16–22 completed a structural MRI to examine whether subjective nicotine craving, stronger ...

This article suggests that some illness experience may require a reading practice less concerned with narrative coherence or self-authorship, and more interested in the value of textual fragments, ...

This article proposes a way of narrating chronic pain: the telling of a chronicle . Recent work in the medical humanities has been critical of traditional approaches to illness narratives. In line ...

Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction." ...