Interview With Nora Volkow, NIDA

Interview with Nora Volkow, NIDA – Interview with Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who gave a plenary talk at the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (www.ias2011.org) entitled, Ending HIV transmission among drug users by 2015, available at http

How To Have "The Talk" When It Comes To Drug/Alcohol Abuse

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When you see the statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse that more than half of new illicit drug users begin with Marijuana, with prescript pain relievers to follow, it shows how big of a issue this is. Drug use is highest among people in …
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Researchers examine parallels between food and drug addiction

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Nora Volkow, et al., “The Addictive Dimensionality of Obesity,” Biological Psychiatry, February 2013. Co-authored by National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora Volkow, the article proposes that drug and food addiction “share neurobiological …
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