Sober living

These results suggest the gradual emergence of long-term changes in the neural circuitry underlying motivation as a result of sugar self-administration and abstinence. Several cholinergic systems in the brain have been implicated in both food and drug intake, and related to DA and the opioids (Kelley et al., 2005, Rada et al., 2000, Yeomans, 1995). […]

Simpson bought the building as an investment at first, but when she started thinking about how to use it, she kept coming back to the idea of a sober house. The story of Holistic Sober Center reflects the challenges of combating the opioid crisis in Maine, an epidemic that has cut short nearly 4,000 lives