The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved a new medication for the treatment of opioid withdrawal symptoms—the first time this has happened in its history (Kim, 2018). The medication, called lofexidine, is a ...

According to a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry, resistance training (i.e., lifting weights) at the gym may help reduce symptoms of depression (Hosie, 2018; Leipholtz, 2018). The study was conducted by the University of ...

Katelyn Newman, staff writer for US News, recently wrote about the possible benefits and disadvantages of establishing safe injection sites to combat the opioid crisis. Newman explains that injection sites provide a sterile space for ...

Opioid addiction is a major public safety concern, killing more people a day than gun violence. Adrianne Wilson-Poe, PhD, and faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine, urges policy makers to consider reclassifying cannabis ...

A model recently created at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine using X-ray crystallography shows an indentation on the receptor DRD2, which may allow scientists to develop more selective antipsychotic medication with ...

Young adults aged twenty-five to thirty-four are experiencing higher rates of drug overdose and death. Between 2015 and 2016, the death rate for millennials rose by more than 10 percent, partially due to opioid overdoses ...

On Monday, March 5, approximately twenty activists met at the Denver city and county building to meet with city officials about psilocybin, more commonly known as “shrooms” or “magic mushrooms” (Awad, 2018; Kim, 2018). The ...

Studies conducted at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) show that the drug tandospirone may be able to reverse the effects of alcohol on neurogenesis, and help prevent relapse. This new finding suggests other possible ...

According to The Guardian, “A report commissioned by a cross-bench group of MPs and peers found that alcohol abuse by parents was behind horrific problems for children” and that “more than one in three deaths ...

Earlier this month, San Francisco’s local Health Commission voted unanimously in support of opening safe injection sites in the city, which will make San Francisco the first city in the country to embrace this harm ...