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Grace Point Treatment Center has released an educational article examining “how drug addiction is assessed and treated within licensed clinical environments”. The resource is positioned as an ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn't use a patch. He ...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) can greatly reduce the compulsion to use heroin in standard rat models of addiction. Rats that were ...

Does using alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances? In standard brain ...

Is preaddiction real? If so, what is it? Preaddiction proposes that some addiction-related changes emerge before full substance use disorder develops—and before consequences become severe. Like ...