Rolling Out7d
Addiction as a disease remains misunderstood
Study reveals how addiction physically changes the brain, challenging the misconception that people struggling with substance ...
Psychology Today3mon
Is Addiction a Disease?
That doesn’t mean it is easy to gain control of the behaviors involved in addiction—but it is possible, and people do it every day. The disease model of addiction also suggests to people that ...
Psychology Today3mon
Addiction and the Brain
It is important to know that recovery from addiction also relies on neuroplasticity. Changing behavior rewires the brain. What is the brain disease model of addiction? The disease model of ...
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We're Addiction Experts. Here's The 1 Thing We'd Never, Ever Do.
Addiction is a terrible disease that affects almost 50 million ... But that doesn’t mean there’s one model that works for everyone. Just like general mental health treatment looks different ...
SFGate1mon
Poor sleep and addiction go hand in hand − understanding how could lead to new treatments for opioid use disorder
For patients with psychiatric conditions from addiction to mood disorders such ... associated with psychiatric disorders in people. We model these changes in mice to explore how they affect disease ...
The New York Times25d
An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn’t It Used More?
While framing addiction as a brain disease may reduce blame (the user ... There was a good medicine for opioid addiction and a model for delivering it in the emergency department, he said, but ...
The Conversation1mon
Poor sleep and addiction go hand in hand − understanding how could lead to new treatments for opioid use disorder
For patients with psychiatric conditions from addiction to mood ... disorders in people. We model these changes in mice to explore how they affect disease severity and behavior.