A popular class of drugs for treating diabetes and obesity reduces addiction, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, ...

GLP-1 medications may quiet the brain signals behind addiction, reducing substance use disorders and overdose risk across ...

Drugs originally designed to treat diabetes and obesity are reshaping medicine in unforeseen ways. Their impact on public health is really unprecedented in modern times, perhaps only upstaged by ...

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.

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 ...

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline ...

As the nation’s director of drug control policy, James Carroll says “one thing is clear” when it comes to dealing with what he describes as the nation’s “unprecedented crisis” of drug addiction.

What’s driving the permanent crisis of drug addiction? To express the ambient feeling that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, and on its ...

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening to coordinate a federal government response to drug addiction and substance abuse. According to a White House fact sheet, the ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Drug policy was largely a backburner issue in 2025. Despite the ambitions of some moderate or right-leaning activists, and an apparent passion ...

First-person stories of drug addiction, hope, healing, and recovery. Addiction is a complex and often misunderstood condition. This gripping special provides raw, unfiltered access to first-person ...

People often joke that their favorite snack is "like crack" or call themselves "chocoholics" in jest. But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such ...