Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

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

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. Jul. 15—Know this: An analysis, modeled after a national study conducted by the Council for Economic Advisers, found that in 2016 alone the opioid crisis cost West ...

For those who’ve experienced the legendary tow of opiates, a deepening cycle of despair and deliverance is commonplace. For the rest of us it is hard to imagine what motivates such futile and ...

This week students at North Surry High have been participating in National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week. The annual event is meant to inspire conversations among young people about the science of drug ...

The new initiative aims to boost awareness about drug addiction and advise federal agencies on directing grants to support ...