After more than a decade of rising mortality, the USA is experiencing an unexpected and encouraging decline in drug overdose deaths. According to provisional estimates from the US Centers for Disease ...

"Why are some drugs legal and others illegal? ... if you ask how and why this distinction got made, what you realize when you ...

Alcohol is second on the list of the most addictive drugs in America. By altering the brain's chemistry and triggering the release of pleasure-inducing chemicals like dopamine, alcohol can create a ...

The Land of Enchantment is anything but. New Mexico is the most drug-addled state in the union, and its teenagers are the most addicted, according to a new study by financial company WalletHub.

Britain and America speak the same language, and the similarity in the popular cultural icons in each country ensures that they remain close kin when it comes to society and politics, despite the ...

The Trump administration is proposing wastewater testing on a national level to try to ferret out data on illegal drug use in real time, according to a draft of a new drug control strategy obtained by ...

Late last year, I walked roughly a mile from downtown Seattle to the working-class neighborhood of Little Saigon and came upon a montage of human despair. An open-air drug market stretched along the ...

A new review explores how GLP-1 receptor agonists may blunt alcohol and drug reward signals, opening a promising but still unproven path toward repurposed treatments for addiction. Review: The role of ...

For many people, the thought of a tasty burger or a cold pint of beer conjures a vivid mental image and drives behavior. This link between thinking and doing serves a clear function—it motivates us to ...