The MHRA has strengthened addiction warnings for Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and gabapentinoids after a review found risks of ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

The experiences of one doctor in Louisiana reveal the tensions around trying to get people to engage in addiction treatment, ...

HEALTH officials have issued an urgent addiction warning over three common pain and anxiety drugs. UK medicines watchdog the ...

Elyse Stevens was a primary physician at the University Medical Center New Orleans, which runs an integrated health clinic specialized in treating patients with substance use disorders. At first, her ...

A neuroscientist explains how highly processed foods may be key to “food addiction.” She also reveals some solutions ...

Researchers identified a key molecule that highlights how the immune system is linked to the release of dopamine.

There are about as many Americans living with addiction as there are Americans living with cancer — but you wouldn’t know it based on the world of venture capital. In the past decade, investment firms ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

Real People, Real Stories” seeks to share local stories of loved ones lost to substance-use disorder in an upcoming Brattleboro art show.

Athletes, actors, politicians, and others often develop substance abuse disorders and some die from drug-related deaths. At the same time, their life history, drug use, and risk-taking shows the rest ...