Alcohol use disorder (AUD) remains a major public health challenge in the United States, contributing to more than 170,000 ...

I was addicted to alcohol for more than 15 years. What started as binge drinking in high school and college became a pattern of blackouts, emergency room visits, regret and shame. As peers grew up and ...

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a treatable but potentially life-threatening condition. Yet millions of people still lack access to the most effective treatment options. According to recently released ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown in a new study that GLP-1 medications may be effective at treating and preventing substance-use disorders across all ...

“Start low, go slow.” Geriatric pharmacology texts and recent systematic reviews (e.g., on dosing of oncology drugs) warn ...

Look around your office, a café, or a family get-together. Statistically, two out of every three adults there took medication within the past week. A new nationwide survey of 21,000 Americans found ...

Using data from 100 million people, researchers found that amphetamine use increased the risk of stroke by 122%, and that ...