As alcohol use continues to rise across California, particularly among adult men, communities like Vista are feeling the weight of an intensifying crisis. In San Diego County, recent data reveals that ...

The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's ...

Amphetamines disrupt dopamine signaling and can lead to addiction, insomnia and even death. Researchers are using the tiny roundworm C. elegans to uncover how these drugs affect the brain. They ...

As drug addiction continues to take a toll on communities across the United States, the need for effective, targeted ...

An increasing number of users are forming deep emotional bonds with AI chatbots, leading to a new form of addiction - AI ...

SKNY-1 was previously shown to achieve up to 30% weight loss, reverse nicotine craving, and preserve muscle mass in an animal model-and is designed to avoid the CNS side effects that halted earlier CB ...

In standard brain disease models of addiction, the neurotoxic effects of abused psychoactive substances are thought to cause brain changes that spur compulsive cravings for drink, smokes, or dope.

New research challenges the idea that substance use explains structural brain changes in youth, a theory that underlies current brain disease models of addiction.