Pointing to Ozempic as a paradigm shift, an elite rehab center is experimenting with GLP-1s to tame many forms of addiction.

Because unpleasant withdrawal symptoms fuel nicotine addiction's high relapse rate, targeting their underlying mechanisms ...

The much-maligned 1995 cyberpunk film envisioned a world of tech addiction, brain implants, and AI companions—ideas that feel eerily relevant in today's world.

Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Brain imaging studies show that grievances—real or imagined perceptions ...

A groundbreaking study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Canada has revealed that an experimental ...

Research shows that the brains of those who use drugs are substantially different than those who don't, well before drugs are ...

Addiction can be a loaded term. The word originated in the 16th century to denote an abnormal attachment, typically to ...

Understanding the differences between these types of rewards and how memories of different drugs interact may lead to more effective treatments for addiction. What is memory? To study reward memories, ...

Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs. Disentangling them requires understanding how memories are formed.

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The new model could prove valuable for the development of therapies to prevent and ...

He is an investigator at the UW School of Medicine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain and Emotion.

The author overcame his dependence on pills and alcohol. Now he wants to beat back misconceptions about the science of addiction.