Mount Sinai researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder—known as the orbitofrontal cortex ...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Mahoning Valley is no stranger to the substance use disorder epidemic, but the Mahoning County Drug Court offers hope and redemption to its victims. Now, filmmaker Nancy ...
Polysubstance use disorder is a mental health condition in which someone uses more than one substance at the same time or within a short period of time, despite a pattern of negative effects.
Source: Mark Gold, MD with permission Addiction medicine is in the midst of a conceptual tectonic shift. Recent work by Director Nora Volkow and her National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) colleagues ...