South Rampart Pharma is working to develop an oral small molecule non-opioid pain treatment which has generated early positive clinical data as a therapy for acute and chronic pain, as well as ...

By last winter, medetomidine was showing up in 70% of illicit opioid samples tested in Philly, along with other unregulated ...

Should we encourage or discourage a person with a substance use disorder to wait till they "hit rock bottom"? Treatment should start in preaddiction, before the worst case.

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. BOSTON — The president of a leading addiction medicine group issued stark warnings on hardline Trump administration policies on substance use, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AI has potential in addiction medicine, especially regarding risk prediction, but this technology must be used ...

When Mary* and her husband, Peter*, first noticed that their teenage daughter Saoirse* was drinking alcohol and using cannabis, they never imagined the “pain and anguish” it would cause over the next ...

Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular when a person cannot stop these behaviors despite experiencing negative ...

An extract taken from the cannabis plant has been found to reduce chronic low back pain without risking addiction, according to a study. Researchers said the results could be the "first non-addictive ...

Sex and love addiction is not an official psychiatric diagnosis. Instead, it is a colloquial (slang or informal) term used to describe a compulsive preoccupation with romantic relationships that ...

Reno police seek public's help to locate missing 78-year-old The Reno Police Department (RPD) is asking for the public's help in locating a missing endangered elderly person.Dolores Main is a ...