Lighting Up Brain Stops Liquored-Up Rats

Published January 16, 2014

Lighting Up Brain Stops Liquored-Up Rats
The results suggest the possibility of using optogenetics to treat substance abuse, neurological diseases and mental illnesses. A team at the University at Buffalo used light to stimulate neurons in rodents that had been trained to drink alcohol in a …
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Drug Addiction, Smoking Cessation Can Be Treated Concurrently
Smokers who are also addicted to stimulants can successfully quit smoking without hindering treatment for stimulant addiction, new research shows. Results from a randomized, 10-week trial showed that smoking cessation therapy significantly increased …
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Free Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment? We Can Fix That!
Imagine a treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism that uses no drugs, requires no trained personnel, resources or insurance and makes no money for anyone. This “people's program” is the anonymous 12-Step groups which have quietly saved millions …
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Siamak Afshar on How to Treat the Disease of Drug Addiction (3/3) – http://SupremeMasterTV.com • AW1628; Aired on 28 Feb 2011(in Persian ) Interview with Dr. Siamak Afshar who discusses how to treat drug abuse and addiction. …