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 ...

Consuming addictive substances often involves an unpleasant experience, like using a needle, ingesting a bitter substance or inhaling smoke. These distasteful experiences—known as aversive cues—and ...

For rats in Texas, 4/20 has come early. Houston-area rodents have forced police in the area to change the way they operate after developing an addiction to drugs stored in station lockers. "We got 400 ...

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 ...

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have reported the results of a genome-wide association study in rats that identified key biological drivers of cocaine addiction. Using a ...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) can greatly reduce the compulsion to use heroin in standard rat models of addiction. Rats that were ...

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 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 ...