December 2011
Understanding and responding to drug abuse among America’s aging population becomes more urgent as a growing percentage of baby boomers enter the over-50 age bracket.

Financial Strain Hinders Smoking Cessation

December 2011

Marker for Neuronal Damage Resolves a Year after Methamphetamine

December 2011
New results extend previous findings that some methamphetamine-induced neuronal damage resolves after a year of abstinence.

Program Helps Troubled Boys Reduce Substance Abuse

December 2011
Chronically delinquent boys in Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care reduced their substance abuse more than boys assigned to Community Group Care.

Individual Differences in Decisionmaking Style May Predict Teen Problems

December 2011
Reports on the relative influence of genes versus environment on adolescents’ choices that involve delayed gratification.

Stimulant Abusers' Regard for Future Improves With Memory Training

December 2011
Researchers correlate stimulant abusers’ improved performance on a memory training exerc ise with reductions in delay discounting.

Resting Brain Studies Shed New Light on Vulnerabilities

November 2011
Individuals with weak signaling in a nicotine-sensitive brain circuit were more vulnerable to nicotine dependence than those with stronger signaling, according to a study conducted while the subjects’ brains were in a resting state. A second resting-state study finds that the same circuit appears to mediate dependence associated with a genetic risk factor for smoking.

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Substance Abuse Among Older Adults

Financial Strain Hinders Smoking Cessation

Marker for Neuronal Damage Resolves a Year after Methamphetamine

Program Helps Troubled Boys Reduce Substance Abuse

Individual Differences in Decisionmaking Style May Predict Teen Problems

Stimulant Abusers' Regard for Future Improves With Memory Training

Resting Brain Studies Shed New Light on Vulnerabilities

NIDA Recognizes Developer of a New Business Model for Science

Girls More Likely Than Boys to Use Ecstasy

NIDA's Drug Abuse Research Advances Science as a Whole