ERIC J. NESTLER and ROBERT C. MALENKA study the molecular basis of drug addiction. Nestler, professor in and chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1998. Malenka, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, joined the faculty there after...

The Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence Past, Present, and Future: The Nathan B. Eddy Memorial Lecture E. L. May Precursors of Addiction David N. Nurco Developmental Epidemiological Studies of Substance Use in Woodlawn: Implications for Prevention Research Strategy Sheppard C. Kellam, C. Hendricks Brown, and John P. Fleming Susceptibility to Substance Abuse Among American Indians: Variatio...

1Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, McKnight Brain Institute, USA 2Departments of Psychiatry and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, and Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston, USA 3Impact genomics, Inc., Lederoch, Pennsylvania, USA 4Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Research Foundation, USA 5Department of Holistic Medicine, National Institute for Holis...

Due to the criminalization of drug use and addiction, opioid use disorder is overrepresented in incarcerated populations. Decades of evidence supports opioid agonist therapy as a highly effective treatment that improves clinical outcomes and reduces illicit opioid use, overdose death, and cost. Opioid agonist therapy has been both studied within correctional facilities and initiated prerelease....

brated the 30th anniversary of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies with a daylong colloquium on Sept. 21. Keynote speaker DAVID ABRAMS came to Brown in the late 1970s as a clinical psychology intern interested in behavior therapy treatment of tobacco and alcohol addiction. Here he found a stalwart cadre of empathetic academics and clinicians who didn’t see addiction as a question of im...

BACKGROUND Addiction is the repeated use of a chemical substance which affects the biological function of the brain and endangers physical health of the addicted person. Prevalence and pattern of taking drugs were assessed in the current study in a Special Cares Trauma Center. So the specialized physician could manage the medical procedure more easily through identification of addicted patients...

Authors: Benjamin T. Saunders, Jocelyn M. Richard, Elyssa B. Margolis, and Patricia H. Janak Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA Department of Neurology, Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Alcoholism and Addiction Research Group, University of California San Francisco, CA 94158, USA Department of Neuroscience, Johns H...

Internet can affect the human life in both positive and negative way. One of these effects is an internet addiction. Several studies have been done relating to Examination are important for revealing which topics studied more. Therefore, study was undertaken examine theses made associated with This conducted through document analysis method. A search National Thesis Center website using term ad...