The addicted human brain: insights from imaging studies

Tributes to an inability to inhibit the drive to seek and consume the drug and results in compulsive drug intake.This model has implications for therapy, for it suggests a multi-prong approach that targets strategies to decrease the rewarding properties of drugs, to enhance the rewarding properties of alternative reinforcers, to interfere with conditioned-learned associations, and to strengthen cognitive control in the treatment of drug addiction.

• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy
• OO
  Office of National Drug Control Policy
• NI
  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• NI
  National Institute on Drug Abuse
• BA
  Biological and Environmental Research