Researchers Turn to Lasers, Asthma Drugs to Combat Drug Addiction

Researchers Turn to Lasers, Asthma Drugs to Combat Drug Addiction
In both rats and humans, individuals with cocaine addiction suffer from low activity in the brain's prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for behavioral flexibility, decision making and impulse control. When researchers turned on the cells using a … Read more on Counsel & Heal

Story of overdose pushes student to quit drugs
13 from an accidental overdose of heroin, diazepam and cocaine, according to the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Smith, who attended GW from fall …. That's basically heroin addiction, too, more so than other drugs." Deaths from drug … Read more on GW Hatchet (subscription)