Nothing stuck until Pagan, a 36-year-old personal caregiver from Revere, learned late last year of an innovative new program ...

By Kanak Panigrahi I believe in opioids. This perspective doesn’t come naturally. While opioids have had a devastating impact on millions of people, I have learned to appreciate their benefits. For my ...

American Pie’s Jason Biggs detailed what he called being “very close” to rock bottom amid his addiction struggles, which saw ...

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New research identifies a promising strategy for correcting dopamine imbalances in the brain using a drug that blocks kappa ...

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The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s ...

Can the brain recover from addiction? New research shows that mindfulness can restore the addicted brain's ability to savor natural pleasure.

A vaccine that helps people overcome cocaine addiction has shown signs of being safe and effective in a small trial ...

Like methadone, the tightly regulated treatment for opioid addiction used in America since the 1950s, it acts on receptors in the brain to satisfy cravings. Compared with methadone, buprenorphine ...

"This medication — which is a drug that inhibits sodium channels — works outside the brain on pain ... s non-opioid mechanism eliminates risks of misuse, addiction and respiratory depression ...