Showing posts with label NIDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NIDA. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Addressing Criticisms of the Disease Model

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Volkow, Koob, and McLellan on the neurobiology of addiction. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a review articl...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

NIH Director Calls Off NIDA-NIAAA Merger

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Nation’s addiction research institutes to remain separate but unequal. Two years ago, the National Institutes of Health’s Scientific Ma...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Alcohol Researchers Still Wary of Combined Addiction Institute

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  Why can’t we all just get along? A long time ago, an intrepid institutional director named Francis Collins promised his minions (as for...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

NIDA’s Volkow Defends New Medications for Addiction

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On Big Data, Big Vaccines, and a Big New Agency. In her Director’s Report to the 2011 meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependen...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Random Notes from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence

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Opening day addresses at the annual meeting. (These are notes on research in progress, not findings written in stone). --NIDA director ...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Bath Salts and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence

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CPDD holds annual meeting. I’ll be out of the office for a few days, attending the annual meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Depe...
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Friday, November 25, 2011

Drug Addiction in 10 Slides or Less

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Dr. David Friedman explains it all. Dr. David Friedman, a professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest University School of Me...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Drug Fact Not Fiction

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National Drug Facts Week is upon us. Yes, kids, times does fly, and it’s time again to do a CyberShoutout for National Drug Facts Week, w...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

NIDA on Drugs, Brain, and Behavior

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How Science Has Revolutionized the Understanding of Drug Addiction. Addiction to alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs costs Americans as mu...
Monday, November 8, 2010

Meet Sara Bellum

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It’s National Drug Facts Week. Let’s face it: Most groups, movements, associations, programs, textbooks, and videos that attempt to instil...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Who Controls Addiction Research?

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The ongoing merger wars at the NIH. As researchers await the National Institute of Health director’s decision on the matter of merging the...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

NIH Turf Wars

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Combining Addiction Agencies. For nearly a decade, the idea of combining the federal government’s two primary addiction research institute...
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