Hundreds of studies have found that certain foods affect some people similarly to addictive substances like nicotine.

The subject of addiction swirls with myths and misinformation. It doesn’t help that so many people seem to believe that their own struggle with addiction — or a few drop-ins to Alcoholics Anonymous ...

Researchers at UC San Diego are working to learn why there are individual differences in drug addiction behaviors. Photo credit: Alina Grubnyak/Unsplash via https://today.ucsd.edu/ Researchers at the ...

"I got complacent. Everything was going so well in my life," the 42-year-old said this week. But the spiral of crack addiction led to divorce and him ultimately robbing a bank and a pharmacy. On ...

Kristen Maddox was desperate. She was strung out on crack cocaine and pregnant when she pushed open the door of what she thought was an abortion clinic. The door opened instead to a Christian crisis ...

GLP-1 drugs, originally developed for diabetes and obesity, may also curb addictive behaviors by acting on reward circuits in ...

Study: Molecular and circuit determinants in the globus pallidus mediating control of cocaine-induced behavioral plasticity. Image Credit: Alex Mit / Shutterstock.com Ventral tegmental area dopamine ...

A new study published in European Neuropsychopharmacology suggests that semaglutide, a drug already used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, may also help reduce cocaine use, drug-seeking behavior, ...