Religious references changed in AA’s ‘Big Book

Apr 07, 2011
I think it could be of interest to my readers, particularly those of you who might be interested in the...

Health-care providers find the power of spirituality...

Apr 06, 2011
What started as a sore tongue for Eva Grayzel more than a decade ago turned out to be a tumor...

Addiction and Neurobiology Talk

Princeton students and community members gathered on Tuesday night in McCosh 50 for a talk titled “The Neurobiology of Drug...

How marijuana affects the way the brain...

Apr 05, 2011
ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2011) — Drugs like marijuana act on naturally occurring receptors in the brain called cannabinoid receptors. However,...

Opioids now most prescribed class of medications...

ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2011) — Two reports by addiction researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the...

Study Finds Foods Addiction Similar To Drug...

According to a new study, food addictions result in similar activity in the brain as drug addictions. "This past year...

First Addiction Medicine Residencies Accredited

The American Board of Addiction Medicine Foundation today accredited 10 training programs, the nation’s first post-graduate addiction medicine residencies for...

Treatment Providers To Adopt Anti-Addiction Medications

Alcohol addiction treatment providers must recognize alcoholism as a disease, adopt use of anti-addiction medications and work to advance progressive...

New Leads On The Causes Of Alcoholism

In order to develop new medications for alcoholism, researchers need to understand how alcohol acts on the brain's reward system....

Cocaine images capture motivated attention among users

Apr 04, 2011
ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2011) — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU)...