Addiction is a neurological disease that affects millions. How can we help them? From the desk of Dr. Teresa Franklin I earned my PhD in 1999 from Hahnemann University in Phila, PA, USA. Since then, I have worked mainly at the Center for the Studies of Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania, Phila, PA. USA. My research focus is addiction – specifically, the study of conditioned drug responses – otherwise known as drug cue-induced craving, which we can study now in real time with magnetic resonance imaging – MRI. Nowadays, most of us have had an…