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Nader Pouratian is a neurosurgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is investigating the use of DBS for chronic pain. Pouratian said it is an "appropriate time" to research DBS for drug addiction, but...
aBlocking the High: Development of Biologics to Treat Drug Addiction 阻拦上流: 对待毒瘾的Biologics的发展[translate]
of patterned drug use that causes issues in a person’s life. At the more severe end of the spectrum is substance addiction. To understand why some people are more susceptible to addiction and why it can be so difficult to treat, let’s take a look at how addictive drugs affect the bod...
Methadone currently is being used to treat drug addiction in the USA. This involves replacing a narcotic with another narcotic (methadone) that does nothing to heal the addiction and often creates more problems than the addicting drug did. Side effects can last 24 hours, and include addiction, ...
Yet people like Mike seldom tell their stories, afraid the revelation will undermine their success in a world still uneasy with the notion of taking a drug to treat drug addiction. Methadone and buprenorphine (best known by the trade name Suboxone) are both opioids. They create physical dependen...
to recognize patterns from it. So, we believe thatmachine learningcan help us to leverage the information that can be derived from large chemical databases to design new drugs from scratch. And in that way, we can potentially reduce the time and costs associated with drug discovery,” she ...
A Day in the Life: Inside Drug Rehab Structure and routine are crucial in early recovery. Addiction often thrives in chaos, where the lack of routine allows substance use to become a central part of life. By introducing a structured daily schedule, inpatient rehab helps individuals re-learn ho...
Q1: What is drug addiction? A:Drug addiction, also known as substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior, leading to an inability to control the use of legal or illegal drugs or medication. It’s characterized by intense and, at times, uncontrollable dr...
that you treat it differently," McLellan said. "But now what the science shows -- without question -- is it is a brain disease. The use of alcohol and other drugs at high doses -- regularly -- produces changes in the brain that give you the characteristics of addiction. Compulsio...