Purpose

What causes people to crave drugs? What makes certain people more susceptible to becoming addicted to drugs than others? How does the brain change during drug abuse? Dependence? Withdrawal? What are the biological mechanisms of addiction? These questions and many more are currently being addressed by the investigators of the Center for the Neurobiological Investigation of Drug Abuse (CNIDA) at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

The purpose of the Center is to provide a research environment that allows investigators with major interests in substance abuse to work together on joint research projects that utilize the broad research expertise of each individual. The internationally recognized faculty with research, training and service interests related to the actions of drugs of abuse on the brain and the biological basis of drug addiction, are the essence of this Center.