... have more difficulty recovering, says Dr. Harry Haroutunian of the Betty Ford Center. The type of drug being abused can also affect treatment length, addiction experts say. Methamphetamine and heroin ...
... in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region critical for the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse.
"Modafinil was developed with an expectation that a medication could have a non-dopaminergic target for ...
... remains a mystery. "Future studies are required to identify the exact mechanisms through which drugs of abuse alter neural circuitry that is normally accessed by naturally reinforcing events but is ...
... . This pathway is called the 'mesolimbic' dopamine system and is involved in the addictive properties of many drugs of abuse, including cocaine, alcohol and nicotine.
"While much progress has been ...
... U.S. poison control centers of caffeine abuse showed bad reactions to the energy drinks. ... might serve as "gateway" products to more serious drugs of abuse. Potentially feeding that "transition" market ...
... appear in the November 1, 2008, issue of Neuroimage. "Methamphetamine is one of the most addictive and neurotoxic drugs of abuse," said Brookhaven chemist Joanna Fowler, lead author on the study. "It ...
... models, sugar-bingeing causes long-lasting effects in the brain and increases the inclination to take other drugs of abuse, such as alcohol," Hoebel said.
Hoebel and his team also have found that a ...
... this region were involved in stress-induced reinstatement (relapse) behavior.
It was also known that alcohol and drugs of abuse increase dopamine levels, not just in the "classical" reward circuitry ...
... power over the brains of lab animals in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse.
So now sugar addiction can overtake "I have a thyroid condition" as the number one excuse obese people ...
... Ohio State University also participated in the study.
The study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression; the Alexander S. ...
Simple aspirin may prevent liver damage in millions of people suffering from side effects of common drugs, alcohol abuse, and obesity-related liver disease, a new Yale ...
... to reducing first-time methamphetamine use. Additional support was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"We commissioned this study to provide decision makers with the best possible ...
... and medial frontal cortex, which previous research had implicated in processing rewards and drugs of abuse. They also examined associations between the level of activation in this circuitry during ...
... to explore the association between stress during development and susceptibility to the psychostimulant effects of drugs of abuse, such as cocaine.
Rats were stressed: (1) as fetuses (by housing the ...
... effect of reward," Deisseroth said. "Understanding more about these dopamine neurons has implications not only for drugs of abuse that directly access these feelings of reward, but also for ...
