North Texas researchers identify gene changes in brain reward circuits that may point to new treatments for those struggling ...

People with substance use disorder—whether addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or nicotine—share a strikingly similar ...

Experts are already treating addicted people with at-home neuromodulation devices to control cravings, and the future is ...

UCSF experts share their research on medications’ potential to slow or reduce risk of dementia and to treat the triggers that ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

Al-Aly is a physician and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis and chief of research at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. At a dinner party recently, someone poured my friend a glass ...

To determine the extent to which the gut-brain-vagal axis is involved in dopamine reward activity, the research team conducted an array of experiments involving mice. Some experiments involved cutting ...

Studies show that ibogaine can be effective for short-term opioid addiction treatment, especially reducing drug cravings and some withdrawal symptoms.

What’s the most addictive drug? Newly published research indicates that when focusing on persistent drug memory, craving, and addiction, the most addictive illegal drug is cocaine. In contrast, the ...

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs alter brain circuits in the amygdala and dopamine system to reduce the motivation to seek out high-calorie foods.

The hype surrounding the psychedelic drug ibogaine reached a fever pitch in April, when President Donald Trump talked up its potential at a White House event promoting increased access to psychedelics ...