Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

Ketamine is growing in popularity as a treatment for depression. But misuse of the drug is also causing serious, 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 ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Gaikwad Vaibhav Raghunath, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Task Force/H-NEW, addressed the gathering and emphasised that drug ...

University of Florida neuroscientists have made a mechanistic discovery that paves the way to test immune-modulating ...

Days as a trainer at Monmouth Park can be long and hard for 63-year-old Anthony Margotta Jr. But as someone who spent years wrestling an addiction to drugs and alcohol, Margotta said he “can’t take ...

The MHRA has strengthened addiction warnings for Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and gabapentinoids after a review found risks of ...

The director of the West Virginia First Foundation expressed excitement over the potential of a program aimed at alleviating the effects of drug addiction across southern West Virginia. “This is a ...

Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and Prince are just a few of the many who have died from overdosing on drugs. However, it seems as though their deaths are not enough to instill change ...

HEALTH officials have issued an urgent addiction warning over three common pain and anxiety drugs. UK medicines watchdog the ...

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves east ...