A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published ...

Scientists have found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what ...

Children have an amazing facility to learn, and our society does everything to encourage this. Learning is good and it is difficult to conceive that too much could have a negative impact. However, ...

The Department of Psychiatry gives residents the opportunity to train in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry to help those battling substance use disorders and addiction through our fellowship ...

Tempe, AZ Aug. 27, 2021 — Until recently, COVID-19 and other life-changing events in the last year have drawn attention away from the opioid epidemic. Not for Dr. Kirk Bowden, an addictions and ...

My name is Daryl Shorter, M.D., and I am the training director for the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. I love the culture at Baylor College of Medicine. Baylor’s curriculum lends itself to a unique ...

A new training and development resource is available to the state’s addiction and substance use prevention professionals. The New Jersey Prevention Network recently launched The Learning Center. The ...

Behind every case of mental illness or addiction, there is a story. Often, the story isn’t about something spontaneous or random but about conditions that are rooted deep in the lives of the people ...