There are 4 distinct and encompassing benefits that can result from using a neuroscience perspective when researching and understanding addiction

• Provide information to inform clinicians in planning and providing care for those with substance addictions
• Providing patients and their families with accurate information on what to expect throughout the course of treatment
• Inform public policy with regard to addiction
• Increasing basic knowledge about the brain: how it works, how it acquires dysfunction, and how it heals