The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has published the first-ever science-based guide to drug addiction treatment. In its Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide ...

Each drug that’s abused affects brain ... He believes the best hope for treating addiction lies in melding modern science and ancient contemplative practice. He’s an evangelist for mindfulness ...

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

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.

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

According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, smoking kills more than 1,000 Americans every day, and although tobacco use is generally declining in the U.S. its use is increasing among some ...

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 ...

The drug is also called pink cocaine although it typically contains no cocaine. Instead, market-savvy drug dealers concoct ...

It is frequently said that addiction occurs when drugs “hijack” the brain.It’s hard to nail down what that means, but it does rightly suggest that there is an involuntary takeover of the ...

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

A recreational drug called “pink cocaine” is getting attention and causing confusion since it doesn't typically contain ...

Dr Fares Qeadan, the paper’s primary author, explains to Popular Science that opioids and alcohol were chosen for the study because “both … interact with reward pathways in the brain that GLP-1 ...