The film discusses the growing issue of drug addiction, emphasizing the psychological reasons behind substance abuse rather than the substances themselves. It identifies various demographic groups ...

Mount Sinai researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder—known as the orbitofrontal cortex ...

Dating back to at least the late 19th century, a key question has shaped public drug debates: is addiction a disease best addressed through medical care, or is it a crime that deserves punishment?

LOS ANGELES—America’s drug crisis has many survivors. Jerry Schlesinger, 72, is among the longest tenured. He tried heroin at 15. Today, he has been sober for two years. In between ...

adds to a growing body of work hinting these drugs could help people manage drug and alcohol addiction. In the study, researchers used data from more than 227,000 people in Sweden's patient data ...

As local leaders told Fox News, many of these unhoused individuals have been ravaged by addiction, driven by drugs like fentanyl and xylazine, also known as "tranq." Vermont itself has seen a 500% ...

In a new statistical analysis, researchers have found evidence that drugs like Ozempic may help curb alcohol and opioid addiction. Published in the journal Addiction, this new study saw ...

OUR STATE CONTINUES TO BATTLE THE ONGOING DRUG CRISIS. KOAT U-N-M MEDICAL EXPERT DOCTOR RASH TELLS US ABOUT A LOCAL RESOURCE THAT HELPS WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION. ACCORDING TO THE NEW ...

Advertising Instead, her medical records show, a doctor there gave Maddy a prescription for three days’ worth of the addiction medication buprenorphine, the overdose-reversal drug Narcan and a ...