Addiction

Anyone who has desperately searched their kitchen cabinets for a piece of forgotten chocolate knows that the desire for palatable food can be hard to control. But is it really addiction?

Researchers in Brazil evaluated cocaine and crack addicts undergoing rehabilitation for six months and observed a higher relapse rate and worse cognitive impairment among patients who smoked cannabis to try to mitigate their craving for cocaine

Research is the first study of college students to look broadly at multiple states that have legalized recreational marijuana and to go beyond the first year following legalization

Understanding compulsive drinking in some people relies on identifying the neural pathway that keeps drinking in check

Study involving mice shows that a drug used to treat high blood pressure may alleviate anxiety induced by long-term heavy alcohol use

Researchers from 41 international institutions released their findings after analyzing sewage samples from 60 million people between 2011 and 2017

Researchers use mobile app to measure how commercially available cannabis products affect pain intensity