I don’t drink anymore. I don’t smoke anymore.” He might have shrugged it off, but reports accumulated in his clinic and ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - March 06, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Grace Point Treatment Center has published a new educational ...

The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery. This initiative ...

New research suggests the weight-loss medications could be powerful tools in tackling substance use disorders.

There are many causes and effects of addiction. One approach to understanding the struggles individuals experience is through the lens of affect psychology, where the underlying emotions that motivate ...

Addiction research poses an exciting challenge for young scientists who wish to address one of the most important and persistent problems confronting society today (see Chapter 2). However, a number ...

After a surge fueled by the opioid epidemic and the spread of fentanyl, drug overdose deaths in the United States have begun to decline, as have nonfatal overdoses. The exact reasons for this drop ...

Named by the Evening Standard as one of the top 100 people shaping London in 2025, Professor David Nutt has authored over 500 research papers and more than 30 books. One of the world’s foremost ...

Addiction is often defined by its source: drugs, alcohol, gambling, etc. But focusing on the substance or behavior alone misses a deeper issue: Many who overcome one addiction simply replace it with ...