This article may help explain addiction science through research on alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, dopamine. The source abstract begins by describing: “In this Opinion article, Nutt and colleagues examine the history of and current evidence for the dopamine theory of addiction.”
Key finding: These observations have implications for understanding reward and treatment responses in various addictions.
Nature Reviews Neuroscience • 15 Apr 2015 • Reviews
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This article may help explain addiction science through research on cannabis, brain science, genetics, mental health. The source abstract begins by describing: “There have been dramatic changes worldwide in the attitudes toward and consumption of recreational and medical cannabis.”
Key finding: Here Ferland and Hurd discuss risk factors related to the development of CUD its neurobiological characteristics.
Nature Neuroscience • 06 Apr 2020 • Reviews
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This article may help explain addiction science through research on cannabis, brain science, withdrawal, craving. The source abstract begins by describing: “Cannabis withdrawal in cannabis use disorder (CUD) increase the risk of relapse and lacks effective treatments.”
Key finding: Increases in FAAH (%ΔFAAH whole-brain) were significantly associated with longer cannabis abstinence, greater baseline depression severity, and tendency to act without thinking ( p
Neuropsychopharmacology • 09 May 2026 • Research
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This article may help explain addiction science through research on alcohol, cannabis, brain science, withdrawal. The source abstract begins by describing: “Alcohol use disorder (AUD) remains a pervasive public health issue with limited effective treatments.”
Key finding: These findings indicate that chronic CBD administration attenuates both behavioral and neurobiological facets of alcohol dependence by modulating neuronal excitability and preventing neurodegeneration, supporting its therapeutic potential for AUD and providing mechanistic insights for future research.
Neuropsychopharmacology • 10 Jul 2025 • Research
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This article may help explain addiction science through research on opioid, brain science, relapse, treatment. The source abstract begins by describing: “Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic relapsing disorder that, whilst initially driven by activation of brain reward neurocircuits, increasingly engages anti-reward neurocircuits that drive adverse emotional states and relapse.”
Key finding: This Primer by Strang, Volkow and colleagues discusses the risk factors of opioid use disorder, together with its epidemiology, mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment.
Nature Reviews Disease Primers • 09 Jan 2020 • Reviews
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