Scientific Exchange

June 17-20, 2005
Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa
Orlando, Florida

June 16-19, 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona

June 15-18, 2007
Quebec City, Canada

June 13-17, 2008
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Cendrine Danae Robinson, a doctoral student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), was recently awarded a tuition waiver from the NIDA International Program to attend the Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction in the Netherlands later this year.

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Consultation on Building an International Research Agenda

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Creating A Cooperative Network in the Middle East
Mohamed Al-Afifi, Substance Abuse Research Center, Palestine Territory

June 19–23, 2009
Reno, Nevada

Executive Summary

NIDA International Forum Focuses on Commonalities Among the Diseases of Addiction

Drugs. Sex. Gambling. Obesity.

Plenary session speakers at the 14th NIDA International Forum documented the commonalities among these "Disorders of Desire," citing clear overlaps in implicated brain regions and similar patterns of compulsive self-administration, tolerance, craving, comorbidity, disruption of inhibitory control, and impaired decision-making.