One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

Texas allocates $50 million to UT-led IMPACT partnership for ibogaine clinical trials treating PTSD, addiction, and more.

From meditation to molecular science, addiction treatment is being reinvented. See how new breakthroughs are giving hope for recovery.

Addiction expert Dr. Drew warns that trendy "Dry January" and "dopamine detox" resets may signal deeper addiction issues.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have identified a previously unknown mechanism of cocaine’s activity in the brain, which could open new types of treatment for addiction to the drug. Intriguingly, it seems ...

It is frequently said that addiction occurs when drugs “hijack” the brain. It’s hard to nail down what that means, but it does rightly suggest that there is an involuntary takeover of the brain that ...

Contrary to common thinking, cocaine triggers an addiction only in 20% of the consumers. But what happens in their brains when they lose control of their consumption? Thanks to a recent experimental ...

Addiction is often more than strictly behavioral or psychological. It can be genetic, social, and in the case of Opioid Use Disorder, the regular use of the drugs can change the very physiology of the ...

When Dragons Kill by Professor Dr. Bankole A. Johnson”, a Forbes News-ranked psychological fiction collection exploring the ...