Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms ...

Addiction casts a wide net across society, entangling people of all ages and walks of life in its intricate web. Beyond the stereotypes and assumptions that often surround substance abuse lies a ...

Resurgence Alcohol & Drug Rehab Riverside has published a new educational resource focused on explaining “dual diagnosis treatment and the connection between co-occurring mental health disorders and ...

Ohio lawmakers are exploring the possibility of using a psychedelic drug to treat patients with severe addictions or ...

United States, 8th Aug 2024 - In today's world, prescription drug addiction has become a growing concern that affects millions of people across the globe. Early recognition of signs could be very ...

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 ...

Megan Harrigan hurried around the Union Street Brick Church in Bangor in September, gathering clients and bringing them to the back corner of the church where there was a makeshift clinic of folding t ...

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 ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

A life-threatening condition called sepsis kills hundreds of people in American jails and prisons each year, a USA TODAY investigation has found, but inmates with a history of drug use are at ...

Here’s some groovy news. A mind-bending blast from the past — once hailed as a “wonder drug” that could cure everything from anxiety to addiction — is making a comeback. In the first trial of its kind ...

Timothy Rohan headed out from his home in Holyoke, Mass., eight years ago on an unlikely mission. The construction worker planned to shoplift supermarket bags of shrimp, then sell the purloined ...