Drug addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease that involves complex interactions between a person’s environment, brain circuits, genetics, and life experiences. People with drug addictions ...

Police and public health leaders have warned it has "never been" more dangerous to take drugs thanks to the arrival of super-strength man-made opioids. Nitazenes can be hundreds of times stronger ...

But a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics highlights that accessing these necessary drugs isn’t always simple — about 1 in 5 older ...

That has meant turning from tracking infections to tracking illicit and high-risk drug use. Monitoring wastewater for viruses works because infected people excrete tiny bits of viral matter ...

Most people believe that smoking major drugs like heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, or cocaine is much safer than injecting the drug. After all, there are serious risks of major skin abscesses ...

After a lull of nearly 2 decades, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved some novel drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease since 2021. Most of these drugs are antibody ...

The annual number of drug overdose deaths in Australia has almost doubled over the past 20 years, according to a new report. Of the 2,356 overdose deaths in 2022, the vast majority were ...

A type of drug developed for treating cancer holds promise as a new treatment for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, according to a recent study. A type of drug developed for treating ...

She was someone with direct and painful experience of Scotland's horrendous drug death tally – figures which are rising again, external, and remain significantly higher than those in the rest of ...

Future Virology. 2012;7(12):1145-1147. Physicians caring for INR HIV-infected subjects struggle between two opposite options: leave ARV therapy as it is or start an experimental therapy in order ...

A man living with Parkinson's has shared the "life-changing" effect a new drug has had on his symptoms, helping to alleviate the shaking that used to disrupt his daily life. Damien Gath ...