Addiction is not simply a lack of willpower. It is a long-term medical condition that changes the way the brain works. When a ...

Unlike heroin or methamphetamine, substances that are widely recognized as illegal drugs, nitrous oxide and other emerging ...

(The Conversation) — A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown in a new study that GLP-1 medications may be effective at treating and preventing substance-use disorders across all ...

China has warned of the growing abuse of non-scheduled addictive substances, even as the country's overall drug control ...

People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest. But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such ...

Ahead of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Supreme ...

California sober is a self-prescribed approach to sobriety (or, more accurately, semi-sobriety) that refers to using marijuana (medical or recreational) in place of alcohol or other addictive ...