UConn Researcher: Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore)

UConn Researcher: Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore)

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In the early 1980's, explains Salamone, the National Institute on Drug Abuse put out a call for research on the neurological basis for drug abuse and addiction. The research that ensued built … “Science is not a collection of facts. It's a process …
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A Vaccine to Curb Addicts' Highs

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An ancient-looking African-American woman who was in fact in her late 30s, she met my gaze with a look that I had seen all over the blighted neighborhoods of Detroit: a disturbing combination of twitchy facial movements and inert, vacant eyes. Feeling …
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Gitmo Detainee Death Mystery Deepens With News Of Drug Overdose

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Prescription drugs are overtaking illegal drugs as the primary cause of accidental overdose and death.” Were Injections of “Chemical Restraints” Involved in Latif's “Overdose”? In an October 18 story by Jason Leopold on the abuse Latif suffered at …
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