Taking medication for opioid use disorder “can offer an advantage, an often-needed edge,” says Miranda. “It can offer reprieve from the intense cravings and adverse drug withdrawal symptoms that ...

Smoking instead of injecting drugs can reduce harm, but a new study shows opioid smokers are four times as likely to suffer severe burns.

The interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely suited to help people understand and recover from addiction.

Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how our brains process ...

A large epidemiological study of more than 600,000 veterans with diabetes suggests GLP-1 weight-loss medications may reduce drug- and alcohol-related overdoses and deaths ...

People taking GLP-1 drugs often talk about “food noise” vanishing: the constant mental chatter about food that dominated thei ...

Nearly five years after first announcing its plans to close the supervised consumption site at the Sheldon M. Chumir Health ...

Researchers analyze 2.2 million genomes to show that addiction risk is primarily driven by broad genes affecting brain wiring and impulse control, not drug-specific traits.

(The Conversation) – A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He ...

The addiction myth that drug use per se causes addiction, and not the situations faced by users, has resulted in a major shift of government money to funding treatment, without demonstrated efficacy, ...

Should have been convicted for possession of drugs for personal use and not for trafficking, says the high court while reversing the Chandigarh trial court order ...

Weight-loss jabs could prevent and treat addiction to alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, according to a large study. Experts believe the way the medicines work on the brain’s reward pathway cuts cravings ...