brated the 30th anniversary of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies with a daylong colloquium on Sept. 21. Keynote speaker DAVID ABRAMS came to Brown in the late 1970s as a clinical psychology intern interested in behavior therapy treatment of tobacco and alcohol addiction. Here he found a stalwart cadre of empathetic academics and clinicians who didn’t see addiction as a question of im...

Bernard Le Foll and Isabelle Boileau 1 Translational Addiction Research Laboratory, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Alcohol Research and Treatment Clinic, Addictions Program, CAMH, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Departments of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Family and Community Medicine and Institute of Medical S...

background: this study aimed at investigating the simple and multiple relationships between   personality traits and addic­tion potential in university students. methods: three hundred and forty two students were selected by cluster sampling from the shahid chamran university (iran). the scales used for this descriptive study were neo-ffi personality inventory and iranian addiction potential sc...

BACKGROUND Understanding the biological underpinnings of relapse in alcohol dependency is a major issue in addiction research. Based on recent evidence regarding the relevance of occipital visual evoked response potentials (ERPs) in addiction research, and its significance for relapse research, we assessed occipital ERPs to alcohol- and non-alcohol-related stimuli in recently detoxified patient...

Addiction recovery mutual aid societies have played a significant role in the resolution of severe alcohol and other drug problems throughout the world and have exerted a particularly profound influence on the professional treatment of addiction (Humphreys, 2004; White, 2004). The purpose of this article is to discuss five current contextual influences that will influence the future of Alcoholi...

Introduction The use of alcohol, in particular its harmful and alcohol dependence, represent a public health problem interest to all age groups. Indeed, is responsible for heavy burden disease considerable socio-economic burden. Objectives To determine the prevalence main factors associated with it sample Tunisian students. Methods This an analytical cross-sectional study carried out during 202...

Animal models on alcohol preference have a long-standing tradition in biomedical research on alcoholism. However, these models allow only limited conclusions regarding alcohol addiction. Therefore, during the past 15 years, researchers have developed new animal models that mimic different aspects of human alcohol addiction, such as craving, relapse, and loss of control over drinking. These mode...

Alcohol misuse among individuals receiving agonist treatment for an opioid use disorder is common and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. At present, though substantial research highlights effective strategies for the screening, diagnosis and management of an alcohol or opioid use disorder individually, less is known about how best to care for those with a dual diagnosis esp...