OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. — West Virginia Northern Community College hosted a Lunch and Learn on the physical and psychological effects of drug use and addiction. The Student Recovery and Support Club at ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte From laboratory models to small human trials, a new review explores whether popular metabolic drugs could ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Opioid medications treat pain associated with surgery, cancer, chronic illness, and traumatic injury. The short-term effects of taking opioids are well-studied, but the long-term effects are less ...

University of Florida neuroscientists have made a mechanistic discovery that paves the way to test immune-modulating ...

The MHRA has strengthened addiction warnings for Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and gabapentinoids after a review found risks of dependence and withdrawal.

PA live! (WBRE) — Paola Giangiacomo is back to give a teaser of her next edition of Paola’s Parenting Playbook. This week she is discussing child abuse. According to the National Children’s Alliance, ...

Eighty-one purple pinwheels rattled as they spun at Sarg Hubbard Park on Thursday, each representing an overdose death in Yakima County last year. Nearby, about 100 people gathered to remember those ...

Speaking in front of Congress about fentanyl and the effects of addiction on his life will always be the “single most impactful moment” of Jelly Roll‘s life. The country musician spoke to Rolling ...