Another major focus of addiction research is on the development and measurement of effective psychosocial treatment and follow-up studies of the long-term outcomes of different approaches. The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies project…

Studies on the pharmacology of addiction focus on the properties of addictive drugs as they interact with the brain and on potential drug treatments for addiction. Some of this research overlaps with genetic research,…

Genetics research includes not only examination of the patterns of inheritance in families but also direct examination of the genes themselves. Advances in molecular biology have allowed researchers to literally break open a chromosome…

In the past several decades our understanding of addiction and its many aspects has increased at a tremendous rate. We now know that addiction is a complex disorder involving several chemical systems…