Helping hospitalized patients begin treatment for opioid use disorder may improve outcomes at a reasonable financial cost, ...

Ozempic was first approved to treat type 2 diabetes in 2017, but it’s garnered most of its recognition in recent years as a weight-loss drug. Now, as more people are taking it and scientists are ...

The findings also reinforce the role of the dopamine system in addiction, by showing that the combination of genes underlying addiction disorders was also associated with regulation of dopamine ...

I had the opportunity to sit in a Symposium at the recent American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Medical Scientific Conference moderated by members of the work group that is creating the ...

Addiction can be a loaded term. The word originated in the 16th century to denote an abnormal attachment, typically to alcohol, and was derived from the Latin term for legally binding someone into a ...

A growing number of people in the United States are clinically addicted to ultraprocessed foods, studies have shown. Which ...

Share on Pinterest A new study looks at how the brains of people with substance use disorder can be similar.Helene Cyr/Stocksy United New research demonstrates a common brain network among people with ...

About a month ago, a young woman stopped by a bright green and blue bus parked outside the Alamance County Health Department, ...

Milwaukee County will stop funding Sankofa House amid budget cuts, putting the treatment center and its residents at risk.