Machine learning brings new insights to cell's role in addiction, relapse

Machine learning brings new insights to cell's role in addiction, relapse

Researchers have applied object recognition technology to track changes in brain cell structure and provide new insights into how the brain responds to heroin use, withdrawal and relapse.

From atop the hill: Burlington’s drug divide

There is a linguistic discontinuity in Burlington’s descriptions of drug culture: students at UVM are “users” of substances, while unhoused individuals downtown are “junkies.”  The “junkie” label reinforces a dehumanizing stereotype of the impoverished and unhoused, demonizing their behaviors, according to a Nov. 27, 2023 Invisible People article. These behaviors are largely seen as acceptable when committed by those living in the “higher class.…