Except for pockets of research in academia, drug companies have devoted almost no funding to searching for cures for drug and alcohol addiction.
And the range of drug therapies will grow, he believes, as new genes associated with drug and alcohol addiction are found.
The social costs of family breakdown, welfare dependency, educational failure, crime, anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol addiction are impossible to calculate.
Dr Griffiths and his colleagues argue that the mood-lifting effects of hallucinogens might be used to treat drug and alcohol addiction.
Lindsay Lohan acknowledged her drug and alcohol addiction in past court appearances.
The Duchess of Cambridge has launched a counselling programme aimed at reducing the impact of drug and alcohol addiction on children in Manchester.
It debilitates otherwise healthy people and may well prove the ultimate cause of drug and alcohol addiction, obesity and many industrial and auto accidents.
Other Comic Relief plans include a broadcast from the Give It Up For Comic Relief concert, the brainchild of Russell Brand, raising money for people in the UK affected by drug and alcohol addiction, on 6 March.
In 1994 Pouletty formed his third biotech startup and named it DrugAbuse Sciences, basing it in Paris and Los Altos, Calif. and devoting it solely to developing treatments for alcohol and drug addiction.
Pete Levy says he wants common sense policing for drug and alcohol crimes which recognises addiction as a health issue.
Bob Probert was one of the most feared enforcers in the game, playing 16 seasons in the NHL despite struggles with alcohol and drug addiction.
Speaking about the programme at the time, Prime Minister David Cameron referred to 120, 000 families who were plagued by drug addiction, alcohol dependency and crime.
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is watching new human trials of the antiseizure drug topiramate (Topamax) to study the effectiveness of dual treatment for alcohol and cocaine addiction.
The campaign seeks to re-educate Americans to the view that addiction is a brain disease and presents convincing evidence that drug and alcohol abuse causes neurological changes that can be seen in brain imaging studies.
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Hours after the hearing, Millicent Tidwell, acting deputy director of licensing and certification for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs said Morningside is not licensed to perform residential in-patient rehab or addiction treatment and lacked the appropriate license to provide residential treatment or recovery programs.
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