Tag: Addiction

If you remember your first hit on a cigarette, you know how sickening nicotine can be. Yet, for many people, ...

Commonly used in medicine as an anaesthetic, ketamine is also increasingly prescribed to relieve depressive symptoms. This very fast-acting psychotropic ...

For people with opioid addiction, many hurdles stand in the way of getting effective treatment – and COVID-19 could have ...

As the strength or potency of cannabis products has increased internationally over the years, so have rates of people being ...

Paris, France – July 11, 2022: As incredible as it may seem, there are trillions on tiny organisms living in, ...

A study analyzing prescription claims for a drug used to treat opioid addictions found that adolescents and young adults were ...

Opioid use disorder is an addiction crisis in the United States that has become increasingly lethal during the COVID-19 pandemic. To preserve access ...

TUCSON, Arizona — Robert C. Robbins, MD, president of the University of Arizona, and Kayse Shrum, DO, president of Oklahoma State University, ...

A large majority of individuals who reported and discussed non-suicidal self-injury on the social media platform Reddit described their experience ...

Irvine, Calif., March 11, 2022 — A new University of California, Irvine-led study establishes important conceptual connections between the fields ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have successfully leveraged an FDA-approved drug to halt growth of tumors driven ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have discovered that cells carrying the most common mutation found in ...

Too little research is being conducted into problem gambling – and what research there is, is often funded by the ...

WASHINGTON—Men with hypersexual disorder may have higher levels of oxytocin in their blood than men without the disorder, according to ...

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25, 2022 – In-hospital addiction medicine consultations can reduce deaths in high-risk patients with substance use disorder, according to a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine by University of ...

Researchers with the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester are studying how the brain puts the ...

Philadelphia, December 17, 2021 – Why are some individuals able to use recreational drugs in a controlled way, whereas others ...

December 16, 2021—(BRONX, NY)—Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System have been awarded a three-year, $447,000 grant to ...

Contrary to common thinking, cocaine triggers an addiction only in 20% of the consumers. But what happens in their brains ...

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, July 26, 2021 - Adolescents who set goals for their future and those with strong parental support ...