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Dopamine Circuit Mechanisms of Addiction-Like Behaviors
Keywords Addiction; Dopamine; Substance Use Disorder (SUD); Mesostriatal pathway; Nigrostriatal pathway; Nigrostriatal pathway; Animal models; Relapse; Craving; Reward; Compulsive behavior(2021)
“I can’t live like that”: The experience of caregiver stress of caring for a relative with Substance Use Disorder
Keywords Substance use disorder; addiction; family impact; caregiver stress; self-care; Al-Anon; mental health; coping strategies; resilience(2021)
Medication and substance use increases among people using cannabis medically during the COVID-19 pandemic
Keywords Medical cannabis; Alcohol; Drug use; Covid-19; Substitution(2021)
Does incarceration influence patients’ goals for opioid use disorder treatment? A qualitative study of buprenorphine treatment in jail
Keywords Buprenorphine treatment; Jail; Post-incarceration; Attitudes toward substance use treatment(2021)
Alcohol and the Brain
Keywords addiction; alcohol; alcoholism; brain; fMRI; PET; brain structure; neurotoxicity(2021)
Curing the broken brain model of addiction: Neurorehabilitation from a systems perspective
Keywords Addiction; Brain disease model; Neurorehabilitation; Systems approach; System-oriented neurorehabilitation(2021)
Epigenetics of addiction
Keywords Acetylation; Addiction; Cocaine; DNA hydroxymethylation; Epigenetics; Methamphetamine; Opioids(2021)
Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction
Keywords self-regulation; polygenic score; gene discovery; mental health; substance use; risk tolerance(2021)
Role of microRNAs in the pathophysiology of addiction
Keywords addiction; epigenetic; microRNA; non-coding RNA; cocaine; methamphetamine; opioids; alcohol; nicotine(2021)
Addiction-Associated Genetic Variants Implicate Brain Cell Type- and Region-Specific Cis-Regulatory Elements in Addiction Neurobiology
Keywords addiction; deep learning; epigenetics; genomics; machine learning; neural circuits; reward circuits; genetic predisposition; mesolimbic dopamine system; Substance use disorders(2021)
Striatonigrostriatal Spirals in Addiction
Keywords addiction; basal ganglia circuits; behavior; dopamine; neurotransmitter; reward system; striatonigrostriatal spirals; neurotransmitters(2021)
Optimizing the impact of medications for opioid use disorder at release from prison and jail settings: A microsimulation modeling study
Keywords jails; medications for opioid use disorder; opioids; overdose; prisons(2021)
Fentanyl-related overdose during incarceration: A comprehensive review
Keywords fentanyl; opioid; overdose; incarceration(2021)
Using implementation interventions and peer recovery support to improve opioid treatment outcomes in community supervision: Protocol
Keywords justice; opioid use disorder; medications; probation(2021)
The short-term and long-term effects of cannabis on cognition: Recent advances in the field
Keywords Cannabis use; cognition; cannabinoids; THC; memory; attention; inhibition; CBD; decision-making; cognitive deficits(2021)