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Koob Selected to Direct NIAAA
An APS Fellow and internationally recognized expert on the neurobiology of addiction has been selected to direct the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). George F. Koob will begin his duties in early
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FDA backs low-nicotine cigarette research as it weighs new regulatory power
The Washington Post: Beverly Anusionwu, a smoker for three decades who favors Maverick menthols, was enticed to the small lab inside the University of Pittsburgh’s psychology department by an ad promising free cigarettes and a
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Booze, Binging and the Devil You Don’t Know
The Huffington Post: Imagine this scenario. You are meeting your boyfriend at a restaurant, intending to break up with him. You know this conversation is going to be tough, but you really don’t know what
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A (New And Revised) Silver Linings Playbook
The Huffington Post: The Serenity Prayer is the cornerstone of many addiction recovery programs, including Alcoholics Anonymous. Borrowed from the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, it is most often recited this way today: “God, grant me the
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National Cancer Institute
The Behavioral Research Program, within the (NCI) National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, initiates, supports, and evaluates a comprehensive program of research ranging from basic behavioral research to the development, testing
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Reducing the Public Health Burden of Drug Abuse
Minda Lynch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse presented her research on “Reducing the Public Health Burden of Drug Abuse: Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse” at the