Addiction Research Unit (Aru) (U.k.)
The Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, was set up in 1967 on the Joint Maudsley Hospital/Institute of Psychiatry campus ...
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Vulnerability as Cause of Substance Abuse
This section contains some articles that discuss one of several Causes of Substance Abuse—vulnerability. In addition to an Overview article, the follow...
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Wikler's Pharmacologic Theory of Drug Addiction
Abraham Wikler (died 1981) was one of the first researchers who, in the late 1940s, strongly advocated the idea that drug abuse and relapse follo...
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Adolescents, Drug and Alcohol Use
Adolescence is a time of many changes—physical, mental, social, and emotional. Most adolescents adapt to these changes in healthy ways. Others experience turmo...
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Law and Policy: Court-Ordered Treatment
When substance abusers are arrested and appear in court, judges sometimes order the person to go through drug treatment. Court-ordered treatment is also known a...
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Drug Addiction
Addiction can be defined as a state where an organism behaves compulsively, even if the consequences of the behavior do not benefit the organism. Drug addiction is a multi-pronged proce...
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In the 1960s Vincent P. Dole pioneered human studies on the biological basis of heroin addiction. He discovered that methadone can quell an addict's craving and that maintenance doses can return narco...
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Webster's dictionary defines addiction as "the compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance, characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal." Merria...
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The True Road to Recovery
For years, many new and innovative recovery options have sprouted up in response to the growing population of addicts in America. Although each individual prog...
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The Addicted Brain
By: Eric J. Nestler and Robert C. Malenka
Scientific American - February 09, 2004
Edwin F. Uruchima
Psychology SS-510 - Fall 2004
Dr. Richard S. Perrotto
December 8, 2004
T...
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Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood."I tried it, I like...
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Buenos Aires/Santiago/Washington (dpa) - Chilean researchers found
the region of the brain that determines drug addiction, through
experiments with laboratory rats.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean scientists have made a
discovery in the brains of rats that they say may help treat
drug addiction and ease the side effects of some medications. Researchers at the Po...
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Buenos Aires/Santiago/Washington (dpa) - Chilean researchers say
they have found the region of the brain that determines drug
addiction, through experiments with laboratory ...
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City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.H...
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City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.H...
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Authorities are bracing for a crime wave by people cut off from painkillers after the arrest of a doctor suspected of repeatedly prescribing OxyContin with few or no questions asked.The county's ma...
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MOSCOW, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Drug addiction kills 80,000
Russians each year, a senior Russian anti-drugs official was
quoted as saying on Friday, while a human rights watchdog issued
a report warning...
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The number of HIV infections in Malaysia could surge by more than fourfold to 300,000 by 2015 as the virus spreads rapidly from high-risk groups to the general public, a senior health official warn...
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Addiction Research Unit (Aru) (U.k.)
Adolescents, Drug and Alcohol Use
Drug Addiction
Vincent P. Dole
Implications and Historical Background to Drug Addiction
Tajikistan grapples with drug addiction
