Tag: Addiction

  • Science & Tech

    AA benefits vary between sexes

    A new study finds differences in the ways that participation in Alcoholics Anonymous helps men and women maintain sobriety.

  • Health

    Alcohol abuse after weight loss surgery?

    Experts on the use of bariatric surgery for the treatment of obesity gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study earlier this month for a two-day seminar examining new evidence that stomach surgery for the treatment of obesity has unexpected side effects, including an increased incidence of alcohol abuse among patients.

  • Health

    Tracing the brain’s connections

    A team of researchers is using a genetically modified version of the rabies virus to create the first comprehensive list of inputs that connect directly to dopamine neurons in two regions of the brain.

  • Health

    Clues to addiction

    Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors that range from learning to drug use, a finding that could open the door to new treatments for addiction.

  • Campus & Community

    How we get hooked

    Harvard Provost Steven Hyman gave Harvard’s neighbors in the community a taste of the University’s academic workings, with a community lecture on the biological mechanisms behind drug addiction Dec. 7.

  • Arts & Culture

    Addiction: A Disorder of Choice

    A sobering book, sure to draw ire: This psychologist posits that addiction is voluntary.By analyzing buckets of research, Heyman offers insight on how we make choices, and how we can stop ourselves from going too far.

  • Health

    Routine screening test examines substance abuse prevalence among teens

    Approximately 15 percent of teens receiving routine outpatient medical care in a New England primary care network had positive results on a substance abuse screening test, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

  • Health

    Addiction illuminates concept of ‘free will’

    Whether humans possess free will or whether their actions are determined by something outside their conscious control is one of the most persistent problems in philosophy.