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A late 1980s commercial meant to combat drug addiction used a pair of frying eggs as a metaphor for the effects of drugs on the human brain. While researchers have [...]

Rutgers researchers have discovered a link between cocaine addiction and a specific set of neurons, which indicates a potential therapeutic treatment for drug addiction.In his findings, Morgan James, lead author [...]

Byline: John Easton There are no approved medications to treat either cocaine addiction or overdose. Frequent users tend to become less and less sensitive to the drug, leading to stronger [...]

Byline: Ryan Stiesi Rutgers researchers have found a promising route to treating addiction and helping patients in recovery -- and they did so by studying rats addicted to cocaine. Researchers [...]

Byline: Holly Gainer Peter Hendricks, Ph.D., and Sara Lappan, Ph.D.Unlike with alcohol or nicotine, there is not a pharmacological option available to individuals addicted to cocaine to help them stop [...]

A study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University confirmed that cocaine users face a greater likelihood to engage in unprotected sex and have greater sexual impulses and sexual desire. [...]

Researchers at the UCLA AIDS Institute and Center for AIDS Research published reports Thursday concluding that intravenous cocaine usage may harm the immune system's ability to ward off HIV. The [...]

A team of researchers at UCSF studying the effects of cocaine on mice have found that after mice are given just one dose of the drug, their brains commence a [...]

Byline: Julia Shumway Ryan Bastle stands in front of his workstation at a research lab on the ASU Tempe campus. Bastle is currently working on a research program that tackles [...]

Byline: Michelle Fredrickson Some scientists in the WSU Neurology department are addicted to drug abuse research, like researcher Bradley Winters. In his latest science fix, Winters affirmed a cellular factor [...]