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, ...

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 ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer. Jessica Massarone couldn’t concentrate in primary school: She was too preoccupied with her parents’ struggles with drug addiction. Sometimes, she’d find ...

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 ...

Have you ever seen a dog playing slot machines in a casino? Probably not, but you might have seen one that really likes to play with toys. A new study shows that there might not be much of a ...

Frank Dillane, starring as a recovering addict in London, elevates this character study, Harris Dickinson’s feature directing debut. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

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Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a tiny brain region called the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) ...

It’s been a rough year-plus for ’90s alt-rock giant Perry Farrell. Last September, the latest reunion tour from Farrell and his old band Jane’s Addiction ended in spectacular fashion when Farrell ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Vol for Life Erik Ainge has been to countless doctors and treatment centers for drugs and alcohol addiction, but in the end, the only thing that helped him is God, Ainge said ...

A bill that would have given people with drug and alcohol addictions the legal right to treatment has been rejected by the Scottish Parliament. Former Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who ...

If you haven’t heard of 7-OH, now is the time to get familiarized and make sure that you and your loved ones know how to recognize and avoid it. The compound 7-hydroxyitragynine, 7-OH, is up to 13 ...