Emmanuel College Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Elizabeth Crofton spoke at the annual McCabe lecture of physical and ...

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 ...

Effective treatment of drug addiction is still a challenging task since scientists are yet to come across definitive clues about the exact psychological and biological mechanisms that make people ...

Despite fewer new addiction cases worldwide, a sweeping analysis finds drug-related deaths surging, exposing critical failures in global harm-reduction and recovery systems. Study: The evolving burden ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...