The White House drug czar launched a new push with ONDCP, SAMHSA, and HUD focused on addiction treatment among homeless ...

Cravings affect addiction recovery and relapse. Treatment must help the person with substance use disorder relearn healthy ...

Researchers are investigating whether GLP-1 drugs could be used to treat addiction disorders, following patient reports of reduced cravings.

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Drug overdose deaths continue to drop in the U.S., but experts say new street drugs made from synthetic chemicals are emerging rapidly.

Renault Shirley remembers the first time he was asked to falsify billing reports for Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center.

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 ...

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 ...

Substance use and abuse is something that touches every corner of the United States, in areas both big and small. According ...

Experts say South Africa's contradictory approach to drugs — treating addiction as both a disease and a crime — is fuelling a worsening crisis in places like Westbury, where illicit drugs plague the ...

New research supports what some people taking the blockbuster weight loss drug semaglutide – better known by the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy – have experienced: that it eases alcohol cravings and ...