Preventing cravings is one of the biggest challenges in the treatment of addiction, because they often cause ex-addicts to relapse into drug use (Kober and Mell, 2015). For instance, the loss of ...

Weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic may become the new frontline warriors in treating and preventing drug and alcohol addiction, a large new study shows. The research, published Wednesday in ...

The ADHD brain is different, not faulty. The ADHD system can set a person up for addiction. Dopamine levels are the key to ...

I WANT TO eat. I need to eat. I shouldn’t eat. I just ate. Why do I want to eat more? Oh my god: Why am I constantly thinking about this? This is so ridiculous. I hate this. I’m ashamed of this. This ...

MIAMI — When Susan Akin first started injecting a coveted weight-loss drug early this year, the chaos in her brain quieted. The relentless cravings subsided — only they’d never been for food. The ...

New research in more than 600,000 veterans suggests GLP-1 drugs may do more than help with weight and diabetes.

Mary started drinking regularly in the early nineties, when she was thirteen. Her father had recently married a Danish woman and moved the family to Denmark, which has one of the highest teen-drinking ...

Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...