When most people hear the word addiction, they picture someone whose life has visibly unravelled. Yet addiction is often ...

The lawsuit claims that the hospital management knew about the alleged drug thefts but did nothing to stop or report it ...

Weight Loss and Substance Use. In addition to being a key feature of many eating disorders, body image disturbance and a ...

"There's this horrible stigma around alcoholism and addiction and I don't think it's a coincidence that many of the ...

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 didn't use a patch. He ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

Washington state Democrats’ commitment to enabling drug addiction has reached a new low. Instead of confronting a growing crisis where kids are overdosing or dying in homes riddled with fentanyl and ...

Sparky D, a well-known battle rapper from the mid-1980s, had struggled with drug addiction for years and was a survivor of ...

For many people, the thought of a tasty burger or a cold pint of beer conjures up a vivid mental image and drives behaviour. This link between thinking and doing serves a clear function – it motivates ...

Synthetic drugs currently account for 73% of drug abuse cases in the country, posing an increased risk of "dual diagnosis" ...

Punjab has been granted immunity to over 10,000 drug addiction victims from prosecution under the NDPS Act and admitted to de ...

In a story that sounds more like the plot of a quirky crime drama than real life, drug-addicted rats have turned Houston's police evidence storage into their personal stash house. These rodents have ...