Addiction can affect anyone, regardless of background, education, or income. It often starts subtly—using alcohol to unw ...

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

Huml Health, a Bentonville-based health care technology startup, will soon offer technology to help people recover from drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neuroscientists are investigating how and when hormones affect the risk for relapse to prescription opioids.

Relapse isn’t a failure. It’s a signal. It tells us that something deeper is still driving our old behaviors. For decades, I’ve studied the science of addiction, relapse, and behavior change through ...

Remote interventions for alcohol or drug use disorder led to a reduction in relapse rates by 39% and the mean number of days of substance use when supplementing in-person care, but effectiveness ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that may explain why people recovering from drug addiction often relapse. Repeated ...

One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying ...

Object recognition software is used by law enforcement to help identify suspects, by self-driving cars to navigate roadways and by many consumers to unlock their cell phones or pay for their morning ...

In Philadelphia, over 1,170 people died of opioid overdoses in 2022, the last year for which complete data is available. More than 300 more died just over the bridge in Camden County. Research ...

Methamphetamine addiction has long been framed as a story of dopamine gone haywire, with the drug flooding the brain’s reward ...