PHILADELPHIA, PA — Researchers at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine say a little-known compound could mark a ...

Addiction can affect anyone, regardless of background, education, or income. It often starts subtly—using alcohol to unw ...

Huml Health, a Bentonville-based health care technology startup, will soon offer technology to help people recover from drug ...

New AUT research shows one in four gamblers who recover from harmful gambling slip back and return to the habit at a risky level.

Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows 40 to 60% of people suffering from drug addiction relapse within the first year. This statistic shows how hard it is to stay sober. But do you ...

Whenever a celebrity is arrested, overdoses, or dies from drugs or alcohol, there is usually renewed media interest in addiction. Most of the time, this means that experts on substance use disorders ...

BOSTON — Judges in Massachusetts can order people with addiction to remain drug free as a condition of probation and jail defendants for failing to do so, the state’s highest court ruled Monday in a ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

The reality TV personality says in a new documentary, "I learned so many tricks, so many things I never even thought of from my fellow addicts that were in there." Kelly Osbourne wasn't impressed with ...

Aug. 14 -- WEDNESDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) -- It may be possible to prevent a drug addiction relapse by disrupting the brain's attempts to retrieve drug-associated memories, according to new ...