Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of cocaine rats finds a fascinating link between the first hit and the development of addictive tendencies. A new ...

EL PASO, TX (KVIA) -- UTEP announced a study that was completed, stating the propensity to drug addiction starts with the first drug experience. Consuming the additive substance mostly starts with an ...

More good news in the battle against opioid addiction. Scientists have reopened research into a class of opioids that were ...

The side wall of psychology professor Bart Hoebel's office is lined with dozens of storage boxes. One is labeled "salt," another "self-stimulation," yet another "crave." Then there is the cluster of ...

Hoebel and researchers in the department of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute have demonstrated patterns of craving and relapse, the third and final stage of addiction, that had ...

The concept of Addiction in Animals offers a powerful lens through which we can better understand the biological, psychological, and behavioral foundations of addiction in people. While addiction is ...

WASHINGTON -- Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the ...