Since the 1970s, countless experts and the US government have sold the public a simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug.

Ion channels have been created that are selectively activated by cocaine and that act to either stimulate or inhibit the electrical activity of neuronal cells in the brain. These cocaine-activated ion ...

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 ...

There is a black market for buprenorphin, an approved drug for opioid addiction. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. “Before I left the ...

Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...

Doctors are warning that ketamine is not the harmless party drug many believe it to be, as rising numbers of young people in the UK are being treated for addiction and serious organ damage. Despite ...