We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

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Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

A new study published in the journal Science Signaling has found that an immune system protein plays a central role in the ...

U.S. overdose deaths fell through the most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that worsened for ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Danny Lewis: For most of his life, Joe Hilton has struggled with addiction and ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

Quitting smartphone addiction is good for mental and physical health. But how do you do it? Here are some of the best science-based methods.We spend 4 hours and 37 minutes on our phones each day, ...

“Revenge,” said Francis Bacon, “is a kind of wild justice.” Both justice and revenge, Bacon recognized, involve our punishing those whom we believe have wronged us. But there is one big difference.

A new study indicates the amount of fentanyl being smuggled into the U.S. fell dramatically during the Biden administration.

School’s out. Teens are bored. And the siren call of social media and video games beckons. Parents and caregivers bungling through new summer routines, or lack thereof, have long sought to balance the ...