Getting medical treatment involving medication is a particular problem for those who have battled addiction.
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New research is looking at existing drugs to treat substance abuse in fresh ways and using information about brain circuitry to help guide their work.
Getting sober doesn’t usually require kicking an addiction to nicotine, but some question whether lighting up at treatment centers should be banned.
We should be concerned when children mimic drug-taking behavior.
A cannabis plant has been bred to offer more benefits without the buzz, and it could potentially treat a host of diseases, if it ever makes it to market.
Does an inclination toward music, art or writing make you more prone to addiction? Here's the science behind the myth.
A Texas teen nearly died after using the mislabeled “potpourri.” Now her family wants her story to alert others to the dangers.
Is there a new invention that can keep you from drinking too much?
When Lance Armstrong sat down with Oprah, one topic that wasn’t addressed was the long-term physical impact performance enhancing drugs have on athletes.
Sometimes when we think we are beyond slipping up, we are in the most danger of all.