Illegal drugs fundamentally shaped the 2024 Presidential election. The campaign season helped to reignite a focus on the opioid crisis and its devastating impacts on communities across the country.

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A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new book, “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight” ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as ...

Christina Dent, founder of End it for Good, a nonprofit dedicated to advocating for drug policy reform in Mississippi, discusses her book “Curious: A Foster Mom's Discovery of an Unexpected Solution ...

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