PHILADELPHIA, PA — Researchers at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine say a little-known compound could mark a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neuroscientists are investigating how and when hormones affect the risk for relapse to prescription opioids.

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

Remote interventions for alcohol or drug use disorder led to a reduction in relapse rates by 39% and the mean number of days of substance use when supplementing in-person care, but effectiveness ...

A recent study of a million people with 14 psychiatric disorders showed these disorders fell into five genetic clusters.

Huml Health, a Bentonville-based health care technology startup, will soon offer technology to help people recover from drug ...

Object recognition software is used by law enforcement to help identify suspects, by self-driving cars to navigate roadways and by many consumers to unlock their cell phones or pay for their morning ...

In Philadelphia, over 1,170 people died of opioid overdoses in 2022, the last year for which complete data is available. More than 300 more died just over the bridge in Camden County. Research ...

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a tiny brain region called the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) ...

One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying ...

40-60 percent leaving addiction treatment to return home relapse within 30 days of treatment, 85 percent within a year of leaving treatment. Many of our staff came to treatment as young people, ...

Researchers have applied object recognition technology to track changes in brain cell structure and provide new insights into how the brain responds to heroin use, withdrawal and relapse. Object ...