Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable
causes of disease globally. Neuroscience promises to revolutionise our ability to treat …

Research increasingly suggests that addiction has a genetic and neurobiological basis, but
efforts to translate research into effective clinical treatments and social policy needs to be …

Neuroscience has substantially advanced the understanding of how changes in brain
biochemistry contribute to mechanisms of tolerance and physical dependence via exposure …

The increasing evidence that many addictive phenomena have a genetic and
neurobiological basis promises improvements in societal responses to addiction that raise …

In recent decades, addiction has been medicalized anew through the rise of an influential
'brain disease paradigm'. This questions the equivalence of addiction to drug dependence …

Addiction is increasingly described as a “chronic and relapsing brain disease”. The potential
impact of the brain disease model on the treatment of addiction or addicted individuals' …

Drugs and the Future presents 13 reviews collected to present the new advances in all
areas of addiction research, including knowledge gained from mapping the human genome …

If one believes that the brain is, in some as yet unspecified way, the organ of mind and
behaviour, then all human behaviour has a neurobiological basis. Neuroscience research …

Advances in neuroscience are changing how mental health issues such as addiction are
understood and addressed as a brain disease. Although a brain disease model legitimizes …

Substance addiction affects millions of individuals worldwide and yet there is no consensus
regarding its conceptualisation. Recent neuroscientific developments fuel the view that …