Drug Abuse

NIDA to Fund Addiction-related Gene Studies in Animal Models
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) –The National Institute on Drug Abuse plans to fund research efforts to develop new methods for sequencing, mapping, and analyzing genomes of animals that have been bred to have traits related to addiction, with the aim …
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 5: Bringing Scientific Rigor to Addiction Research
Saitz was drawn to addiction research in the late 1980s, during his medical residency at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), where many patients were drug or alcohol dependent. While he and his colleagues treated patients' acute …
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