NIH R01 · 2025
Circadian Rhythms and Cocaine Use Disorder
PROJECT SUMMARY Despite decades of critical research into its biological mechanisms and treatment approaches, Substance Use Disorder (SUD) persists as a major world health problem. In the last few years, approximately 21 million people required SUD treatment. Still, recent years have seen dramatic increases in the number of overdose deaths due to heroin, prescription opioids, and cocaine. Interestingly, there is some work that suggests a circadian rhythm and robust time-of-day shifts in the function of specific receptors and neurotransmitter systems that are routinely implicated in drug abuse vulnerability and relapse. For example, diurnal (i.e., light/dark) variation has been observed in…
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