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The Law, the Science, and the Logic of Ending the Teenage Death Penalty
Keywords Death penalty; Roper; Adolescence; Penological objectives; Miller; Eighth Amendment(2021)
Black Girls and the Pipeline from Sexual Abuse to Sexual Exploitation to Prison
Keywords child sexual abuse; black girls; juvenile justice; abuse to prison pipeline; trauma(2021)
Opioid-Induced Structural and Functional Plasticity of Medium-Spiny Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens
Keywords Addiction; Dendrites; Dendritic spines; Heroin; Medium-spiny neurons; Morphine; Nucleus accumbens; Opioid Use Disorder; Plasticity(2021)
The convergent neuroscience of affective pain and substance use disorder
Keywords alcohol; cingulate cortex; insula; opioids; pain; reinforcement(2021)
Alcohol and Cannabis Use and the Developing Brain
Keywords alcohol; cannabis; adolescence; brain; cognition; neuroimaging(2021)
Article Commentary: Dismantling Racism Against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color across the Substance use Continuum: A Position Statement of the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction
Keywords Racism; substance use disorder; addiction treatment; health equity; harm reduction; drug laws; racial disparities; equity(2021)
Addiction should be treated, not penalized
Keywords mass incarceration; addiction treatment; Racial discrimination; opioid crisis; inequitable enforcement; public health approach; racial disparities(2021)
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)