{"id":228884,"date":"2026-01-13T01:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/unexpected-finding-could-offer-new-treatment-targets-for-meth-addiction"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:23:43","slug":"unexpected-finding-could-offer-new-treatment-targets-for-meth-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/unexpected-finding-could-offer-new-treatment-targets-for-meth-addiction","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected finding could offer new treatment targets for meth addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unexpected-finding-could-offer-new-treatment-targets-for-meth-addiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Florida neuroscientists have made a mechanistic discovery that paves the way to test immune-modulating medicines as a potential tool to break the cycle of methamphetamine addiction.<\/p>\n<p>In a new preclinical study, a McKnight Brain Institute team led by Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., Pharm. D., examined the role of neuroinflammation in meth addiction to provide a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike alcohol or opioids, there currently is no medicinal therapeutic approach for methamphetamine addiction,\u201d said Khoshbouei, a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry. \u201cSo this is an important societal issue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Florida neuroscientists have made a mechanistic discovery that paves the way to test immune-modulating medicines as a potential tool to break the cycle of methamphetamine addiction. In a new preclinical study, a McKnight Brain Institute team led by Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., Pharm. D., examined the role of neuroinflammation in meth addiction to provide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}