Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is among the most widespread substance use disorders (SUDs) worldwide, characterized by an ...
Some athletes are addicted to gambling, and recent scandals implicated pro athletes in major criminal gambling and cheating ...
You’ve probably felt it before: that euphoric feeling after biting into one of your favorite foods. Your eyes roll back, you start to smile, and feel like you’re tasting a bit of heaven. For some, ...
Johns Hopkins philosophy professor Pickard’s scrupulous debut study challenges the dominant “diseased brain” paradigm of drug addiction. According to this model, prolonged drug use flicks a ...
A new study from UC San Diego in La Jolla and the National Institute on Drug Abuse points to what researchers consider a promising biochemical approach to reverse the cycle of cocaine addiction — all ...
A drug already prescribed for type 2 diabetes and obesity may one day be used to treat cocaine addiction. In animal studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, found that semaglutide ...
Cocaine produces a powerful positive feedback loop in the brain, which is part of what makes it so addictive. Researchers at UC San Diego are developing engineered proteins that could help break this ...
The various city or state or MTA (or combined) intervention efforts have been doing a very commendable job of finding our unfortunate neighbors on the streets or the subways who are acting in ways ...
Colombia cultivated a record 230,000 hectares of coca leaf in 2022, and produced 1,738 tonnes of cocaine, according to the United Nations - Copyright AFP/File ...