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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)
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)