Tag: Addiction

Could future opioid overdoses, fatalities and other harms of opioid addiction be prevented if hospital emergency departments made better use ...

Psychostimulant drugs like methamphetamine (METH) and cocaine (COC) affect the brain and nervous system by boosting alertness, attention, and energy ...

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, approximately 40 million people in the United States had a ...

Levels of grey matter in two parts of the brain may be linked to a desire to start smoking during ...

Opioids remain the most potent and effective pain relievers in medicine, but they’re also among the most addictive drugs that ...

By Danielle Hendrix ’15 Credit: Photo credit: Blake Osting, University of Central Florida By Danielle Hendrix ’15 ORLANDO, July 13, ...

New research reveals that only one in four adolescent residential treatment centers across the United States provides a medication used ...

Reforms to New Jersey’s Medicaid program successfully spurred ongoing increases in buprenorphine prescriptions for the treatment of opioid addiction, according ...

Nearly 2 percent of the U.S. population reported cocaine use in 2020, and the highly addictive substance was involved in ...

Scientists have developed two new drug candidates for potentially treating addiction and depression, modeled on the pharmacology of a traditional ...

Gambling addiction, also called “pathological gambling” and “gambling disorder (GD),” is known to have severe economic, social, mental, and physical ...

Treating opioid addiction should be much easier now than it was a few years ago, thanks to pandemic-era rule changes ...

BOSTON – New research from Boston Medical Center concluded that offering medications to treat opioid addiction in jails and prisons ...

First study to do apples-to-apples comparison of residential treatment use among Medicaid enrollees across several states Nine states represent 14.9 ...

High levels of the body’s own cannabinoid substances protect against developing addiction in individuals previously exposed to childhood maltreatment, according ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – There is new evidence that fibromyalgia, and the chronic pain associated with it, could worsen opioid use ...

Recently incarcerated people with opioid use disorder have trust in working with peer support specialists who recovered from addiction and ...

ROCKVILLE, MD – Approximately three million Americans suffer from opioid use disorder, and every year more than 80,000 Americans die ...

Scientists tend to view substance addiction as primarily a disease of the brain. When we enjoy sex, food, music, or ...

Whether you call them comfort foods, highly processed foods, junk foods, empty calories or just some of Americans’ favorite foods ...