When a cocaine addict relapses, it isn't a matter of personal failure - it's the biological result of their brain's rewiring, new research finds.

Operation Vanguard arrived in the area this morning ...

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 his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...

A large epidemiological study of more than 600,000 veterans with diabetes suggests GLP-1 weight-loss medications may reduce ...

A class of medications best known for treating diabetes and obesity may also reduce the risk of addiction – and help people who already have one, a new study shows. Semaglutide (also known as Ozempic) ...

The effect was seen across a wide variety of addictive and habit-forming substances, including cocaine, opioids, alcohol, ...

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

Evidence is mounting that the wildly popular weight-loss medicines known as GLP-1s may also hold potential for treating addiction, and the field may be on the verge of obtaining desperately needed ...

Study of 600,000 US military veterans shows that those who took anti-obesity medications were less likely to develop some complications of substance-use disorders.

Gina Roberts used to have this recurring nightmare: frantic and broke, she would search everywhere for a drink, but always the alcohol would remain out of reach. The dream would trigger such ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown in a new study that GLP-1 medications may be ...

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