The weight-loss drugs are linked with reduced rates of excess drinking and opioid overdoses, suggesting they may tamp down ...

Perhaps the most controversial of the “new” addictions are food ... He believes the best hope for treating addiction lies in melding modern science and ancient contemplative practice.

Research hints that medications like Zepbound and Wegovy could provide new ways to treat opioid and alcohol abuse.

Research from earlier this week is the latest to suggest that semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs can help treat people's ...

Opioids mimic the body's natural pain relievers, binding to receptor proteins in the brain and sometimes inducing euphoria. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies.

The humanities and arts offer a vital counternarrative to the clinical view of addiction, emphasizing the role of storytelling, creativity and the search for meaning in the recovery process. They ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center on Aging reveals a concerning trend: methamphetamine poisoning is the leading cause of fatal overdoses among midlife and ...

The proof that addiction can be unlearned neurally and behaviorally, experts say, is that most addicts recover, eventually. The brain adjusts its wiring in response to new inputs, new patterns of ...

How can we treat and eventually eradicate addiction? Over recent decades, we have applied increasingly sophisticated science to understand addiction. Neuroimaging studies and post-mortem ...

“microdosing,” and even accompanying the addiction medication with small amounts of ketamine. The new paper adds to a growing body of evidence that higher buprenorphine doses are safe ...

A new study published in the scientific journal Addiction has found that people with opioid or alcohol use disorder (OUD, AUD) who take Ozempic or similar medications to treat diabetic/weight-related ...

New research examines how early humans evolved to eat carbohydrates by studying the duplication of a certain gene that helped ...