addiction

If you drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, a growing body of evidence suggests that your genetics may have predisposed you ...

Stigma is a problem with health conditions ranging from cancer and HIV to many mental illnesses. Some gains have been ...

In the 1980s and 90s, pharmaceutical companies began to market opioid painkillers aggressively, while actively downplaying their addictive potential. The ...

The 1890s and 1990s were both characterized by unopposed amplification of the benefits of opioids, the transformation of physicians into ...

Recent advertising for opioid drugs has taken a strange turn ...

We still have much to learn about genetics, addiction, and even the brain itself ...

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, for those of us who can remember them, marijuana was widely regarded as not ...

Danish researchers have for the first time identified a gene that increases the risk for cannabis use disorder. About 10 ...

[Stefan] Kertesz, a primary care physician who also specializes in addiction medicine, had not spent his career investigating long-term opioid ...

Are eating habits a matter of choice and discipline? What role do our genetics play in determining how much and ...

We’re so inundated with bleak facts about addiction that it may be hard to perceive any silver lining. It’s nearly ...

For about two centuries the scientific community believed the cerebellum (Latin for “little brain”), which contains approximately half of the ...

A new genetic study looking at smoking and drinking has confirmed much of what we already know about their impact ...

Of all the people who try alcohol or illegal drugs, only 10 to 20 percent get addicted. No single gene ...

As overdose deaths have broken records year after year in the U.S., a group of researchers has looked around the ...

The opioid crisis is an ongoing national tragedy. One commonly suggested response is cannabis. But emerging state and national statistics ...

Opioid drugs like morphine and Oxycontin are still held as the gold standard when it comes to relieving pain. But ...

The ultimate goal of pain medicine—a powerful painkiller with few to no side effects, such as dependence or overdose—is still ...

The opioid crisis is an ongoing tragedy, with fatal overdoses costing thousands of lives each year. Although opioids are an ...

Research suggests that yoga, and similar mindfullness-focused activities, may foster genetic changes that help people cope with stress and avoid ...

Genes linked to pain detection and perception may be physiological targets for new, non-addictive painkillers ...

Scientists have found a way to keep memories made while using meth from becoming permanent, erasing the lure of drugs ...