Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

Good morning. A new startup focused on GLP-1 drugs launched today, but unlike the dozens of other GLP-1 companies, this one ...

A study using Swedish patient data found anti-obesity drugs were linked with fewer hospitalizations related to alcohol use, adding to a body of work suggesting these drugs could potentially be ...

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

The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. Jul. 15—Know this: An analysis, modeled after a national study conducted by the Council for Economic Advisers, found that in 2016 alone the opioid crisis cost West ...

A year prior, the Biden administration gave different reasons for the start of the overdose deaths decline, describing its work to distribute more of the opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone, ...

U.S. overdose deaths fell through the most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that worsened for ...

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that medication makes recovery more likely and reduces the risk of overdose death.

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we ...