The self-medication theory of addiction emphasizes that psychological pain is at the heart of addictive behavior and that vulnerable individuals resort to their addiction because they discover that ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

What’s the most addictive drug? Newly published research indicates that when focusing on persistent drug memory, craving, and addiction, the most addictive illegal drug is cocaine. In contrast, the ...

Al-Aly is a physician and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis and chief of research at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. At a dinner party recently, someone poured my friend a glass ...

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 ...

Researchers believe that GLP-1 drugs act on reward areas of the brain that are responsible for food cravings, making it possible that they silence cravings for addictive substances. The Conversation — ...

For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1 drugs are not yet an approved addiction treatment. But the evidence base is ...