The popular class of weight loss drugs known as GLP-1s have shown to be effective in curbing cravings beyond food. A few early studies have suggested that GLP-1 medications can do a lot to alleviate ...

I recently had a family, minus the mother, come to see me. They were greatly concerned, and rightfully so that Mom was “using”. Mom is indeed addicted to opiates and other narcotics that have kept her ...

The 10th annual Opioid Symposium featured three people's experiences with drug addiction. Hall of Famer Larry Little also shared his experience of watching his older brother fall into addiction.

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer. Jessica Massarone couldn’t concentrate in primary school: She was too preoccupied with her parents’ struggles with drug addiction. Sometimes, she’d find ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. WERNERSVILLE, Pa. — To make sense of the reds and greens dancing across a computer monitor displaying a scale image of a human brain, one ...

In July 2024, Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary designee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., participated in a virtual event in which he briefly outlined his plan to address the country’s opioid ...

Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast in the past few years, through online forums, weight-loss clinics and news ...