Researchers have debunked key beliefs about addiction, like that a person must hit "rock bottom" before having treatment or that teen drug use is just a rite of passage.

A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity), and living conditions, have a greater ...

Scientists are gathering more evidence on which factor has more of an impact on human wellbeing amid the aging process.

People in their late teens and early 20s may be more sensitive to nicotine and more susceptible to nicotine addiction than ...

When you're pricing life insurance policies, you'll want to consider the major factors that insurers use ... Smoking puts you at a higher risk for many health problems. Thus, life insurance ...

A new study suggests that diets high in fast food, processed red meat, and soda but low in fruits and vegetables may be ...

Rutgers Health researchers have discovered that brain immune cells from people with a high genetic risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) behave differently than cells from low-risk people when exposed ...

WASHINGTON — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose ... but don’t involve the risk of substance abuse and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated ... but don’t involve the risk of substance abuse ...