Harold Lewis has been fighting drug addiction for years, but only recently started thinking recovery could be fun. The 59-year-old former cook earned small prizes - candy, gum, gift cards, sunglasses ...

Studies by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researchers led by neuroscientist Bo Li, PhD, have uncovered how neurons called somatostatin-expressing (Sst +) central amygdala (CeA) neurons within the ...

Harold Lewis, a recovering drug user, sits on the porch of his mother’s house in Stratford, Conn. For Lewis, in recovery from opioids, a weekly prize drawing became a way for him to bring home gifts ...

Researchers report October 25 in the journal Neuron that cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how we perceive and learn from rewards. Though people with cocaine addiction have ...

"This is your brain on drugs" via wikimedia commons. Remember that 20th century ad on TV about drug addiction that compared your brain on drugs to a fried egg? Addiction starts with the brain. The ...