This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81070901, No. 81141013), the Beijing Outstanding Talents Project (No. 2011 D003034000019), and Beijing Nova Program (No. 2008B043).
Background Opiate addiction remains intractable in a large percentage of patients, and relapse is the biggest hurdle to recovery. Many studies have identified a central role of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) in addicti...