Hooked: Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break


 

Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break – Dr. Nora Volkow, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports.

 

Meth Vaccine Shows Promising Results in Early Tests

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The study was funded in part by a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant (#DA024705). About The Scripps Research Institute. The Scripps Research Institute is one of the world's largest independent, not-for profit organizations focusing on research in …
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Heavy Drinking During Pregnancy Linked to Childhood Brain Development

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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) also provided funding for this study. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the …
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Obama, What About "Free and Open Scientific Inquiry" for Medical Marijuana?

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Winning FDA approval would be sufficient for research on any other drug. With marijuana, however, scientists must also apply to the National Institute on Drug Abuse in order to purchase the only legal supply of marijuana. NIDA turned down Dr. Sisley's …
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