Table 1 Medications for Treating Drug and Alcohol Addiction * Treating co-morbidities. Abuse of multiple substances, such as alcohol and nicotine or alcohol and cocaine, should be considered in ...

Whether the substance involved is crack cocaine or alcohol or a behavior ... the guilt and shame people feel over their own addictive behavior. Left unaddressed, such painful negative self-related ...

Nor was he of the stuff of which cocaine addicts are made, who are sociable, lacking in mental capacity and need the stimulus of a drug to rouse their interest in life. The continued use of ...

This is a very simplistic overview of how drug addiction ... and reinforcing that behavior. So then we tend to seek the ...

Addiction may involve the use of substances such as alcohol, inhalants, opioids, cocaine, and nicotine, or behaviors such as gambling. There is evidence that addictive behaviors share key ...

Drug addiction extends beyond a substance ... enhanced the rats’ responses to drug cues, reinforcing cocaine-seeking ...

A Brazilian-developed vaccine against cocaine addiction is almost ready for public distribution. The drug, named Calixcoca, “would block the effects on the brain,” according to the researchers ...

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) has announced the 2024 Leading Research Achievements by BBRF grantees, prizewinners, and scientific council members. It includes important studies of ...