That doesn’t mean it is easy to gain control of the behaviors involved in addiction—but it is possible, and people do it every day. The disease model of addiction also suggests to people that ...

One motivation for moving away from the chronic brain disease model, Wiers suggests, is stigma. Studies show calling addiction a 'chronic brain disease' does reduce the degree to which addicted ...

A good night's sleep often sets the stage for a positive day. But for the nearly quarter of American adults struggling with ...

II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. The study demonstrates that the drug improves memory deficits and reverses brain cell damage, ...

Anna talks to an addiction medicine specialist about what the latest research reveals about why people start using drugs and how to support them if they do. Dr. Nzinga Harrison, addiction medicine ...

A paradigm-shifting study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of ...

Researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and affiliated organizations presented preclinical data for the α5-GABA-A receptor (α5-GABAAR) positive allosteric modulator GL-II-73 ...

Contributed by Center for Addiction Treatment Center for Addiction Treatment (CAT) re-launches the Family Education Group ...