The disease model supports harm reduction strategies, medication-assisted treatment, and expanded insurance coverage for addiction services.

The disease model of addiction also helps families understand that recovery often requires long-term support and management, similar to other chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and journalist Shoshana Walter explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry ...

STAT's '3 to Watch' series looks at addiction policy: Future of supervised consumption, use of addiction medications, buprenorphine access via telehealth.

Weight loss drugs may also treat addiction, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease Pharmaceutical companies are already cashing in on their other health benefits.

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change the brain, proving that addiction is a brain disease.

In fact, they found it to work even better than the current most-effective drug for treating alcoholism on the market. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, over 28 ...

This mouse model allows the research team to study the disease's characteristics and test a variety of drugs and genetic therapies, offering hope to affected children and their families.