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

Despite significant advances in addiction science, a persistent and critical challenge remains: the vast chasm between the development of effective, ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

University of Florida neuroscientists have made a mechanistic discovery that paves the way to test immune-modulating ...

Why someone becomes addicted to a substance has long baffled scientists and philosophers. Now leading researchers are getting the clearest picture yet of how addiction works in the brain and body.

Doctors have long taken for granted a devil’s bargain: Relieving intense pain, such as that caused by surgery and traumatic injury, risks inducing the sort of pleasure that could leave patients ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

DEA and Discovery Education rolled out a drug-education program Tuesday that aims to take a different approach to teaching teens about drugs. Rather than "Just say no" messaging and school assemblies, ...

Arriving at a 1987 Gamblers Anonymous event in Dallas, Chris Anderson was at a low point. After years of losing money on high-risk stock option trades, his mental health had deteriorated and he had ...

The Trump administration has reportedly slashed federal funding for mental health and addition programs, a move that experts ...

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

U.S. overdose deaths fell through the most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that worsened for ...