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UN: Afghan drug trafficking routes fuel addiction and disease, benefit extremists (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
VIENNA, Austria - The smuggling of Afghan opiates is fueling addiction and drug use along trafficking routes from Iran to Central Asia as well as spreading diseases and funding insurgents, the U.N. warned Wednesday.
Research in specific cells and circuitry affected by addiction may help guard against relapse (News-Medical-Net)
New research using animal models is enabling a deeper understanding of the neurobiology of compulsive drug addiction in humans - knowledge that may lead to more effective treatment options to weaken the powerful cravings that cause people to relapse.
Studies Improve Knowledge Of Underlying Brain Changes Caused By Addiction (redOrbit)
Research into specific cells and circuitry affected by addiction may help guard against relapseNew research using animal models is enabling a deeper understanding of the neurobiology of compulsive drug addiction in humans — knowledge that may lead to more effective treatment options to weaken the powerful cravings that cause people to relapse.
Official Wants Vaccines For Drug, Nicotine Addiction (WCIA 3 Champaign-Urbana)
The government is backing a new approach to treating addiction.
Studies improve knowledge of underlying brain changes caused by addiction (EurekAlert!)
( Society for Neuroscience ) New research using animal models is enabling a deeper understanding of the neurobiology of compulsive drug addiction in humans -- knowledge that may lead to more effective treatment options to weaken the powerful cravings that cause people to relapse. The findings were released today at Neuroscience 2009, the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting and the world's ...
Studies improve knowledge of underlying brain changes caused by addiction (PhysOrg)
New research using animal models is enabling a deeper understanding of the neurobiology of compulsive drug addiction in humans - knowledge that may lead to more effective treatment options to weaken the powerful cravings that cause people to relapse. The findings were released today at Neuroscience 2009, the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting.
Official Wants Vaccines For Drug, Nicotine Addiction (WROC Rochester)
The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse says it's time to leverage research on vaccines to develop them for treating drug addiction and smoking.
U.S. backs vaccines for drug, nicotine addiction (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Hooked on cocaine or cigarettes? The U.S. government wants drug companies to make a vaccine for that.
Signs of Internet addiction (The Southern Illinoisan)
Signs of Internet addiction, according to Hilarie Cash, executive director of the ReSTART center for Internet addiction near Seattle. Three of the following symptoms suggest abuse, five or more addiction:
U.N. calls for tougher anti-opium fight (UPI)
NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's opium trade is causing worldwide devastation through increased addiction, the spread of the HIV virus and rising terrorism, a U.N. report said.