What is the current status of biomedical research in the drugs field? Why is it that certain people use drugs in the first place and then why do some become dependent following repeated use while others do not? What are the possible implications of the current state of affairs of research from a biomedical or more aptly put, a Neuroscience perspective, including an ethical point of view? It is to these questions that Richard Muscat, Professor in Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Malta and co-ordinator of the Pompidou Group Research platform attempts to reply.
