Addiction and substance use remain pervasive inside prisons, where incarcerated people may encounter ready access to drugs but limited access to meaningful treatment. Jacob Lester draws on research ...

When you read about addiction statistics in our community, our country and around the world, you may think, “well, that’s a lot of people who made pretty bad decisions.” That is, if you’re one of the ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...

Weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic may become the new frontline warriors in treating and preventing drug and alcohol addiction, a large new study shows. The research, published Wednesday in ...