The effects of FAAH inhibition on drug reward have been the focus of several recent papers

This suggests that it may be preferable to assess the role of anandamide in drug reward processes by measuring changes in anandamide levels directly produced by administration of the drug rather than changes in anandamide levels produced after chronic drug exposure, when alterations may be opposite to those after acute administration and may reflect biochemical…

The dot-probe task measures attentional biases toward or away from threatening stimuli

During standard prenatal care, pregnant women are screened for frequency of substance use in the year before pregnancy and during pregnancy via a self-administered questionnaire at the first prenatal visit . Our study sample included all pregnant women aged 11 years and older who completed the self-administered questions about use of alcohol and nicotine in…