Engineering Safer Psychedelics for Treating Addiction.
Neuroscience insights 2021 Jamie Peters, David E. Olson 38 citations
Addiction is best described as a disorder of maladaptive neuroplasticity involving the simultaneous strengthening of reward circuitry that drives compulsive drug seeking and weakening of circuits involved in executive control over harmful behaviors. Psychedelics have shown great promise for treating addiction, with many people attributing their therapeutic effects to insights gained while under...