More information: A Memory Retrieval-Extinction Procedure to Prevent Drug Craving and Relapse, Science 13 April 2012: Vol. 336 no. 6078 pp. 241-245. DOI: 10.1126/science.1215070 ABSTRACT ...

This procedure ought to break the first day’s conditioning and it did temporarily (the “extinction” part of the graph below). But fear memories are harder to banish than that. On the third ...

We recently reported that a conditioned stimulus (CS) memory retrieval-extinction procedure decreases reinstatement of cocaine and heroin seeking in rats and heroin craving in humans. Here we show ...