Whenever a celebrity is arrested, overdoses, or dies from drugs or alcohol, there is usually renewed media interest in addiction. Most of the time, this means that experts on substance use disorders ...

Cocaine use causes 'profound changes' in the brain that lead to an increased risk of relapse due to stress -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). New research published ...

RALEIGH — Drug or alcohol abusers who relapse, even after long periods of abstinence, are often reviled as too weak or undisciplined to straighten themselves out. But a University of North ...

It is not just shops and hospitality businesses that have had to close their doors during lockdown. Social-distancing restrictions have also made it difficult for many counselling services to operate.

Instead of criminalising those trapped in drug addiction, the focus must shift to treatment, counselling and rehabilitation, says Dr Venkata Lakshminarasimha, Assistant Professor at the De-addiction ...