Understanding Addiction – The vast majority of people who have the gene for addiction will feel better than they ever have before in their life after ingesting alcohol for the first t…

The Addiction Puzzle, Part 5: Bringing Scientific Rigor to Addiction Research

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So he tackled the questions himself, publishing his first influential paper, which refined the standard treatment for alcohol withdrawal, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1994. He chose a rigorous scientific design for this …
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Brain Changes Seen in Infant Carriers of AD Risk Allele

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There also had to have been no family history of psychiatric or neurologic disorders, no pregnancy complications, and no reports of illicit drug or alcohol use during the pregnancy. The infants were brought to a facility equipped with cribs and rocking …
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