In a paper published in The Milbank Quarterly, researchers from Harvard, Duke University, and the University of Michigan ...

Trump's Great American Recovery Initiative targets addiction crisis affecting 48.4 million Americans. Like AA, it recognizes the importance of community, health and faith ...

The National Institutes of Health says hospitalizations for marijuana in Arizona rose about 20% over five years as the state ...

Physical exercise is one of the main recommendations for maintaining good health. However, when practiced compulsively and without control, it can become a problem: exercise addiction. An ...

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

Los Angeles, California - From Refugee Camp to Research Leadership: Dr. Edythe London's Quest to Conquer Addiction In a captivating Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Edythe ...

Ozempic, Mounjaro and similar medications for Type 2 diabetes and weight loss could also help people struggling with addiction, according to a new study. Researchers found that people addicted to ...

Addiction is typically characterized as a disease by experts and government officials. Yet, unlike most known diseases, the treatment of addiction is not based on scientific evidence nor is it ...

The new initiative aims to boost awareness about drug addiction and advise federal agencies on directing grants to support ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...