Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as rewarding when you are hungry and water as rewarding when you are thirsty. But addictive substances like alcohol 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 ...

Drug addiction is a chronic and debilitating disease that is considered a global health problem. Various cell types in the brain are involved in the progression of drug addiction. Recently, the ...

Pueblo's Betty Nufer writes about sexual abuse and the effect it has on victims.

Shalev's prior research on the effects of child abuse focused on biological aging—how old a person's body appears relative to the amount of time they have been alive. Because this study examined the ...

Excessive social media use has been likened to an addiction, with the U.S. Surgeon General claiming that excessive use has neurological associations similar to substance abuse 1; but see 2,3. Although ...

Nairobi’s Geoffrey Mosiria transforms a routine trip into hope, facilitating rehab for a young man battling addiction, ...

A massive study of more than 600,000 U.S. veterans suggests that popular GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide may do far more than help with diabetes and weight loss—they could also fight addiction itself.

Xanax, generic name Alprazolam, can be used to treat short-term anxiety, but due to its highly addictive nature is not recommended for long-term use. Its effects kick in relatively quickly, about one ...