Alcohol addiction, also known as alcohol use disorder, is a serious problem that affects millions of people around the world.

The Tahoe Alliance for Safe Kids (TASK) offers a monthly “Did You Know” article, and this month’s topic coincides with ...

While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

What happens next? This is the question the philosopher Hanna Pickard asks in her exquisitely titled book What Would You Do Alone in a Cage With Nothing but Cocaine? Pickard thinks our usual stories ...

When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

Fentanyl-related overdose deaths fell by nearly 30 per cent in the space of a year in the US, which could represent a ...

Researchers have used mouse models to study how cocaine addiction alters the brain, illuminating why relapse is common as ...

Researchers identify PV neurons in the prefrontal cortex as the gatekeepers of drug addiction relapse, offering a new target for precision treatment.

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using.

Preclinical studies in animals have already shown that GLP-1 drugs can reduce reward-seeking behavior. Early clinical work in humans has begun to hint at similar effects. A randomized trial of ...