Drugs, both legal (for example, alcohol and nicotine ... Strategies to combat addiction The knowledge of the neurobiology of drugs and the adaptive changes that occur with addiction is guiding ...

UB’s Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions (CRIA) is a long-standing national leader in the study of alcohol and substance abuse. For nearly 50 years, CRIA has conducted groundbreaking ...

Recent topics include the history of addictions in the US, current knowledge of the neurobiology of addiction, factors contributing to the rise of opioid addictions and deaths, and currently available ...

Our laboratory investigates the neural basis of addiction, focusing on how neuropeptides in the limbic system affect disorders such as alcohol use disorder and binge eating disorder. We use ...

Smith et al, Alcohol consumption confers lasting impacts on prefrontal cortical neuron intrinsic excitability and spontaneous neurotransmitter signaling in the aging brain in mice, Neurobiology of ...