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Addiction

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Person exhaling smoke from e-cigarette.

Pod-based e-cigarettes efficiently addictive

High-dose delivery of nicotine may foster greater dependence than other types of e-cigarettes

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DateJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020

Pills spilling from a bottle

Pharma-to-doc marketing a vulnerability in opioid fight

Harvard-Michigan summit on issue explores addiction, policy

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DateMay 13, 2019May 16, 2019

Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in struggling Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.

Harvard, U. of Michigan to tackle social ills

Two universities launch partnerships to boost Detroit opportunity, reduce opioid crisis

DateSeptember 12, 2018September 21, 2018

A boozy writer who crossed out the adjective

Leslie Jamison ’04: ‘There was an earlier version of myself that believed all great storytelling had to come from radical dysfunction’

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DateApril 4, 2018November 15, 2018

Shelly Greenfield discusses a recent McLean Hospital conference that brought together academics, law enforcement, policy makers to generate ideas for combating the opioid epidemic.

Pulling our punches in opioid fight

Treatment access seen as dangerously inadequate in crisis that continues to claim dozens of lives a day

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DateMarch 19, 2018January 23, 2019

Gov. Charlie Baker joined HMS faculty members in discussing the opioid crisis and the role physician education must play in fighting it.

Putting tomorrow’s doctors on opioid alert

‘Medical schools have a solemn responsibility here,’ says Harvard psychiatrist, joined at conference by Gov. Baker, others

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DateOctober 6, 2017October 10, 2017

At the Harvard Chan School Forum on the nationwide opioid crisis, former governors Ted Strickland (from left) and Steven Beshear, the Menschel Senior Fellow, called for greater doctor cooperation and increased federal resources. Moderator and WGBH reporter Craig LeMoult led the discussion that was broadcast live on NPR.

Sorrow, frustration, hope in opioid crisis

Harvard panels share experiences, ideas in health, policy, law enforcement

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DateMay 9, 2017November 30, 2017

“This is as close to a college education that I will ever get,” said Carrie Fisher after receiving the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism at the Memorial Church. “I want to thank you for playing the music from ‘Star Wars,’ and I was really worried that you were not going to play my theme. Not many people have a theme, but I do.”

Carrie Fisher of ‘Star Wars’ fame continues the battle

Actress shares insight on her addictions, mental illness during award ceremony

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DateApril 19, 2016

“There’s got to be emphasis on prevention or we’ll be doing cleanup forever,” says John R. Knight, director of the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Matching policy to power of addiction

Officials in public health and law enforcement work to lift heroin users from cycle of suffering and crime

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DateOctober 6, 2015April 2, 2019

The Medical School's Bertha Madras is among the dozens of Harvard-affiliated researchers with a close view of the toll and grip of heroin addiction.

Heroin’s descent

Stages of losing control, on the street and in the body

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DateSeptember 29, 2015

A Harvard study found that one in five women receiving Medicaid took codeine, oxycodone, or another opioid sometime during their pregnancy. "We need to evaluate the fetal safety of these medications because right now we have very limited information, yet their use has been increasing," said Rishi Desai, the study's lead author.

New frontier of risk

Study finds sharp rise in opioid treatment among pregnant women

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DateApril 23, 2014

“Men and women benefit equally from participation in AA, but some of the ways in which they benefit differ in nature and in magnitude,” said John F. Kelly, Harvard Medical School associate professor of psychology and the associate director of the MGH-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine.

AA benefits vary between sexes

Study finds differences in how they participate an important factor

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DateDecember 7, 2012

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study brought together scientists, whose research is relevant to obesity and addiction, to investigate an increased incidence of alcohol abuse among those who have had the surgery and, through that, the possible impact of the surgery on the brain circuits that control addiction.

Alcohol abuse after weight loss surgery?

Researchers gather at Radcliffe to investigate gut-brain communication

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DateJuly 30, 2012April 16, 2019

Direct inputs to dopamine neurons: Green dots represent neurons providing inputs to dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), while red dots represent neurons providing inputs to SNc dopamine neurons.

Tracing the brain’s connections

Using rabies virus, researchers are able to track neural pathways

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DateJune 14, 2012July 22, 2019

Naoshige Uchida (above) and colleagues report in the Jan. 18 issue of Nature that reward prediction error is actually the product of a complex interplay between two classes of neurons — one that relies on dopamine and an inhibitory class of neurons that uses the neurotransmitter GABA.

Clues to addiction

Research showing how neurons interact could lead to new treatments

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DateJanuary 18, 2012April 1, 2019

Harvard Provost and Professor of Neurobiology Steven Hyman delivers a lecture titled "Drugs and the Brain: From Neurobiology to Ethics." Hyman is the latest speaker in a lecture series designed to open Harvard’s academic workings to neighbors in nearby communities. The lectures are held at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.

How we get hooked

Harvard provost maps pathways to addiction

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DateDecember 8, 2010

Addiction: A Disorder of Choice

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DateNovember 12, 2009

Routine screening test examines substance abuse prevalence among teens

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DateNovember 8, 2007

Addiction illuminates concept of ‘free will’

Hyman looks at process by which humans choose among many goals

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DateMay 17, 2007