A Los Angeles outreach worker has revealed the sickening depths swindlers will sink to in order to lure homeless addicts to ...

The modern theory of addiction holds that drug and alcohol dependence both results from and causes disease of the brain, characterized by altered brain structure and function. The American Medical ...

Why do so many people struggle to stop drinking, quit smoking or resist endless scrolling on their phones? Addiction touches millions of lives, yet it’s often misunderstood as a personal weakness or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drug abuse and drug addiction are related but not the same. Drug abuse describes using legal or illegal substances in a way that is harmful, whereas drug addiction is a physical or psychological ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has strengthened warnings about the risks of dependence, addiction, withdrawal, and tolerance linked to several classes of central ...

Now, experts are exploring GLP-1s as a novel therapy for another disease: addiction. Addiction is a serious disease that looks different for everyone. In 2024, nearly 17% of people ages 12 and up ...

Late last year, I walked roughly a mile from downtown Seattle to the working-class neighborhood of Little Saigon and came upon a montage of human despair. An open-air drug market stretched along the ...

Kevin Alter fell into drugs when he was only 16. His journey downhill began during his high school years on Long Island when he and his friends got some cocaine. He couldn’t stop the first time 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 ...