Dopamine in the Brain: Hypothesizing Surfeit or Deficit Links to Reward and Addiction
Abstract Recently there has been debate concerning the role of brain dopamine in reward and addiction. David Nutt and associates…
Marlene Oscar-Berman
NIDA-Drug Addiction Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS) Relapse as a Function of Spirituality/Religiosity
Abstract Background: The connection between religion/spirituality and deviance, like substance abuse, was first made by Durkheim who defined socially expected…
Enhancing Brain Pregnenolone May Protect Cannabis Intoxication but Should Not Be Considered as an Anti-addiction Therapeutic: Hypothesizing Dopaminergic Blockade and Promoting Anti-Reward
Abstract Many US states now embrace the medical and recreational use of Cannabis. Changes in the laws have heightened interest…