Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of individuals in various stages of addiction recovery have partnered to plan an awareness event in Hillsdale that ...

Researchers identify PV neurons in the prefrontal cortex as the gatekeepers of drug addiction relapse, offering a new target for precision treatment.

About The Study: The findings of this study confirm that negative reinforcement is a core mechanism in opioid addiction, which is well established in preclinical research but less represented in ...

Addiction can be defined as compulsive drug use despite wanting to stop. The unwilling addict wants the drug but also wants not to want it. From the outside, drug use looks like a choice but it is not ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront series titled “New Challenges for Health Care.” The series of articles focuses on emerging issues that are facing decision makers at provider ...

Overcoming adversity is no easy task, but for Samantha Fancher, she's using it as her purpose to help others, and these qualities make her one of Texoma's Remarkable Women.

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

Anyone raising children in an American city these days has had to confront the following disconcerting scene: a person unconscious or semiconscious, in filthy clothes, stoned at midday, a nuisance if ...