Biology of addiction risk looks like addiction

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 20:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Research suggests that people at increased risk for developing addiction share many of the same neurobiological signatures of people who have already developed addiction. This similarity is to be expected, as individuals with family members who have struggled with addiction are over-represented in the population of addicted people.

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