addiction

It is rare that a drug becomes a household name and even rarer for one to become a superstar, but …

Summary: The relative lengths of your fingers might be linked to your alcohol consumption patterns. Researchers found that individuals with …

Summary: A recent study highlights alcohol as the strongest predictor of cannabis vaping initiation and experimentation among youth and young …

Summary: A new study finds that individualistic reward-seeking behaviors in mice can predict their responses to nicotine. Conducted in a …

Videos on TikTok are contributing to a resurgence in “chroming,” the dangerous practice of inhaling toxic fumes from household items …

Summary: Scientists have uncovered a mechanism in the brain that explains how drugs like methamphetamine and PCP impair cognitive functions, …

An opioid treatment clinic in Vermont Jordan Silverman/Getty Early in August, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a …

Summary: Researchers identified 34 distinct subtypes of medium spiny neurons (MSNs) in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region crucial for …

Ozempic could treat many more conditions than just type 2 diabetes and obesity myskin/Shutterstock Another study adds credence to the …

Summary: Researchers discovered that adaptive myelination, a form of brain plasticity, contributes to drug addiction. A single morphine dose in …