National Institute on Drug Abuse – Addiction Treatment Strategies | Addiction Treatment Strategies

From heroin and cocaine to sex and lies, Tetris and the ponies, the spectrum of human addictions is vast. But for Dr. Nora D. Volkow, the neuroscientist in charge of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, they all boil down to pretty much the same thing. She must say it a dozen times a day:…

Nichole Marie Case unwittingly became dependent on opioid pain drugs. She’s not alone.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated in 2008 that 1.85 million people in the United States were dependent on or abusing prescription opioids, also known as Schedule II painkillers.
Americans…

28 Apr 2011
Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) today announced that results from the phase 3 clinical study of VIVITROL® (naltrexone for extended-release injectable suspension) in opioid dependence have been published by The Lancet. The six-month, phase 3 trial met its primary endpoint and…

Abuse Of Painkillers Can Predispose Adolescents To Lifelong Addiction
ScienceDaily
No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction.
But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology this week, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that…

How We Get Addicted
By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK
I was driving up the Massachusetts Turnpike one evening last February when I knocked over a bottle of water. I grabbed for it, swerved inadvertently–and a few seconds later found myself blinking into the flashlight beam of a state trooper….

Past Month Illicit Drug Use among Persons Aged 12 or Older, by Age: 2008 and 2009
Source:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Office of Applied…

Drug trials show positive results with opioid addiction
(12/14/2010)
News release
San Diego — Drug addiction investigators with joint appointments at Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, along with MediciNova, Inc., a…

November 05, 2010National Drug Facts Week shout-out
On Monday, Nov. 8, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) kicks off National Drug Facts Week (NDFW) “to shatter the myths and spread the facts about drug abuse and addiction.” Targeting teens, the Week includes local events,…