Meet Pioneer in Science, Dr. Nora Volkow

Meet Pioneer in Science, Dr. Nora Volkow – Meet Pioneer in Science, Nora Volkaw, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She’s not your average general in the war on drugs. The troops comman…

Quit Smoking Rx Helped Heavy Drinkers

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This study was published in June in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an agency of the National Institutes of Health, provided financial support for this trial. No conflicts of interest were …
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Fear learning studies point to a potential new treatment for PTSD

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A team of researchers from Emory, University of Miami and Scripps Research Institute has identified a compound that can reduce PTSD-like symptoms in mice after they are exposed to stress. … "We hypothesized that the fear and anxiety component of …
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