The latest 12-month report from the CDC showed 1,400 more deaths in January of this year compared with the year prior. This ...

Behind every misuse or abuse is a story of trauma, mismanaged pain, misguided treatments, and people caught in a system that ...

Quiggle said the association between teens and young adults using cannabis and psychosis and other problems is clear. It's hard to say for sure how the higher potency is affecting the outcomes, though ...

Specifically, the study failed to show that consumption of an ultra-processed food beverage acted on the brain like other addictive drugs and did not trigger a measurable amount of dopamine release ...

New research found that youth who become increasingly addicted to social media, mobile phones or video games are at greater ...

Nicolette Natale, D.O., whose areas of expertise include the treatment of substance abuse disorders. Courtesy Nicolette Natale, D.O. According to ...

Increasing addictive use trajectories were associated with higher risks of suicide-related outcomes than low addictive use ...

Legality and prevalence don’t equate to harmlessness. Substances can have very different effects depending on the user, the ...

Swedish trial finds combining varenicline and bupropion cuts alcohol intake and boosts treatment tolerability.

Addictive use of social media, video games, or mobile phones—but not total screen time—is associated with worse mental ...

Colorado decriminalized magic mushrooms as well as DMT, ibogaine, and mescaline, but the public knows significantly less ...