A new study published in the journal Addiction Neuroscience provides evidence that cannabidiol may help prevent the ...

The county's Medical Examiner is calling to pivot addiction prevention and treatment efforts to address rising cocaine ...

In a study published in Science Advances, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers led by Kasey Brida and Jeremy Day, Ph.D., report that the secreted glycoprotein reelin is a marker for those ...

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion - 10 to 20 percent - of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though small in numbers, ...

Like Mayor Rob Ford, most crack users today are employed, white men. Nov. 7, 2013— -- Cheap, easy to produce and packing a euphoric high, crack cocaine experienced a dizzying period of popularity ...

UB researchers have discovered a previously unknown neural pathway that can regulate changes made in the brain due to cocaine use, providing new insight into the molecular basis of cocaine addiction. ...

It’s hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave. Now, a study published in the Jan. 8 issue of Science shows how it also alters the way the genes in your ...

Biologists began investigating the neuronal changes underlying cocaine addiction many years ago. Some studies focused on what was happening on cell membranes; others tackled the less accessible ...

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Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion — 10 to 20 percent — of the neurons in the brain’s nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though small in numbers, ...