Are there risk factors for addiction ... driving the motivation for seeking drugs. What biological factors influence addiction? Biology contributes to addiction in ways beyond genes.

Myths About Addiction The processes that give rise to addictive behavior resist a simplistic explanation. There is not just one cause: Although genetic or other biological factors can contribute ...

Rutgers Health researchers have discovered that brain immune cells from people with a high genetic risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) behave differently than cells from low-risk people when exposed ...

A study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity), and living conditions, have a greater ...

People in their late teens and early 20s may be more sensitive to nicotine and more susceptible to nicotine addiction than ...

“So much of our addiction ... factors that lead a person to use drugs. In recent years, as the understanding of addiction has improved, more research has been focused on the biological ...