Researchers have debunked key beliefs about addiction, like that a person must hit "rock bottom" before having treatment or ...

A 52-year-old man has knocked his decade-long cocaine addiction on the head after receiving weight-loss injections. The jab ...

When my fixation on sweet treats spiraled out of hand, I turned to hypnosis as a last resort. The experience changed me in more ways than one.

A small but significant new study showed low doses of Ozempic helped people to drink less. Scientists are starting to ...

A professor and department chair at the University at Buffalo who researches drug abuse has been named as the second finalist to lead the University of Kansas’ pharmacy school. David Dietz, a ...

RAs, originally for diabetes, may impact brain health, finding potential benefits for dementia and addiction but inconsistent ...

By taking advantage of the brain’s marvelous plasticity, addiction remolds neural circuits to assign supreme value to cocaine or heroin or gin, at the expense of other interests such as health ...

A new study shows risks for premature death associated with CUD. Others show increased memory problems, CUD, depression, ...

A new study suggests that medications that have transformed the treatment of obesity may also help people drink less alcohol.

It's a known fact that the original recipe for Coca-Cola contained cocaine, but do you know why? The answer is linked to the ...

Medications that have transformed the treatment of obesity may also help people drink less alcohol, according to new ...

The mere sight of a slot machine can trigger a chemical response in the gambling addict's brain in the same way the thought of cocaine stimulates ... machine in feeding addiction is debated.