Hoebel and researchers in the department of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute have demonstrated patterns of craving and relapse, the third and final stage of addiction, that had ...

A new study of cocaine rats finds a fascinating link between the first hit and the development of addictive tendencies. A new study of lab rats who were given cocaine is shedding new light on the ...

OXFORD, Ohio (WKRC) - Breakthrough research on a substance now in laboratory studies could one day give us another therapy to help in the fight against gambling addiction. A potential new addiction ...

Rats can become drug addicts. That’s important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the same ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An epilepsy drug being tested for use in treating addiction can help obese rats shed weight, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday. Their findings point not only to an ...

Social interactions are deeply rewarding for many animals, including humans and rodents. These encounters are pleasurable because they trigger the release of the chemical dopamine in the brain, much ...

From meditation to molecular science, addiction treatment is being reinvented. See how new breakthroughs are giving hope for recovery.

Rats addicted to cocaine lost the craving when researchers used laser light to stimulate a specific part of their brains. The laser technique was also used to trigger new cocaine addictions. The ...

WASHINGTON -- Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the ...

Recently, I was bombarded with Facebook messages and posts about an addiction story everyone got really excited about. This story followed Johann Hari’s book, Chasing the Scream, and his follow-up TED ...