New avenues of research that explore disrupted and destructive decision making by addicts was recently published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.  As noted in the introduction to the article, these important investigations “begin to shed light on the underlying neurobiological mechanisms by which drugs disrupt the “thinking” regions of the frontal brain and lead to the destructive decisions that characterize addiction.” The article ends with the hopeful conclusion, “By revealing different degrees of impairment, this research may hold cludes to treatment success and aid the selection of appropriate therapeutic approaches to help patients overcome addiction’s destructive patter of decision making.”

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