A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

Sitting in the office of addiction family support service, the Whitechurch Addiction Support Programme (WASP), based in the ...

Edtech company Skillsoft, which went public yesterday via SPAC with Churchill Capital II, is looking to take over the corporate digital learning market with its educational training videos. “We cover ...

Kruyer’s lab focuses on relapse to heroin use, as many overdose deaths occur when people overestimate their capacity for drug use during relapse. The team has developed an animal model of relapse over ...

In a bright, white auditorium on the rolling campus of a rehab center on the East Coast, I learned that addiction is a disease. The giant room was filled with addicts and alcoholics, including my then ...

Scientists have identified a tiny brain circuit in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) that keeps alcohol users addicted. The study reveals that people drink not for pleasure but to ...

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a ...

Matt Willis watched his new documentary Addiction in the Family with his eldest daughter. (BBC) Matt Willis has revealed he showed his 13-year-old daughter his addiction documentary because he ...