The striatum and thalamus are subcortical structures intimately involved in addiction. The morphology and microstructure of these have been studied in murine models of cocaine addiction (CA), showing ...

Currently, there are no effective pharmaceutical therapies for treating people addicted to crack cocaine. However, Canadian researchers recently investigated the influence of marijuana to help people ...

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October 2, 2009 — Two thirds of individuals addicted to heroin or crack cocaine stop or significantly reduce their drug use in the first 6 months of receiving community-based treatment, a new study ...

Even after accounting for current crack use, a new study finds that women in drug court who are experiencing current major depression are more likely to use crack within four months than other women ...

America wasn't ready for crack cocaine. When the drug started tearing through poor neighborhoods in the 1980s, politicians and law enforcement officials responded by escalating the war on drugs, ...

He left the House of Representatives while struggling with a crack addiction, his political career seemingly over. Actually, ...

Ever since Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to having smoked crack cocaine, various city councillors and media observers have publicly advised him to seek drug counselling. But in a CNN interview that ...

The research into the development of Calixcoca received funding from the Ministry of Justice - National Drug Policy Secretariat; the Minas Gerais State Research Support Foundation (Fapemig); the ...

The subject of addiction swirls with myths and misinformation. It doesn’t help that so many people seem to believe that their own struggle with addiction — or a few drop-ins to Alcoholics Anonymous ...

Six months after former President Joe Biden pardoned his son’s convictions on federal tax evasion and firearm charges, the 55-year-old shared rare insight into his previous struggles with alcoholism ...

Hunter Biden would go on 16-hour benders while his father Joe was then Vice President, according to excerpts from the memoir published by the New York Times. AP/Charles Dharapak Hunter Biden’s ...