The University of Mississippi has a contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse to provide research-grade cannabis, but it may be cut due to federal budget cuts from DOGE, with the university ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump officials are signaling their interest in approving psychedelic drugs for hard-to-treat mental health conditions.

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

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who ...

Brain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up before they take their first puff or sip ...

Opioid addiction cannot be described as solely a bad habit. It quickly forms into a chronic brain disorder that requires a ...

The International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM), a globally recognised body of over 15,000 professional members and 55 national and regional societies, marked World Drug Day 2025 with a renewed ...

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change the brain, proving that addiction is a brain disease.

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

Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, will make a virtual presentation to UB at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1. Sponsored by the Office of ...

The Comprehensive Addiction Risk Evaluation System, or CARES, uses your genetic information and details about your past – like childhood experiences, alcohol or substance use, and family history ...