Microneedles—a technique for allowing medications to be absorbed through the skin—have recently been studied to assist in the delivery of the drug naltrexone, a drug used to aid those suffering from alcohol and opioid dependence. ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) recently released a study showing that baclofen—a drug used to prevent spasms in people with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders—can help prevent relapse in people addicted to ...

Last week, the film Anonymous People opened in New York theaters. The film, which chronicles the New Recovery Advocacy Movement, is the creation of Greg Williams, who is in long-term recovery himself.  The project was ...

Ever since the death of famed Hollywood star Phillip Seymour Hoffman in February, heroin abuse is once again making headlines. Due to this rise in public concern over the drug, the National Institute on Drug ...

New research has been examining smartphone apps that have arisen to respond to addiction, behavioral issues, and health interests. Nancy Barnett, associate professor at Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, is in the ...

The most comprehensive study to date of parental age and offspring mental health was published in February in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study concluded that children born to middle-aged fathers have ...

A study assessing stroke risk factors in young adults conducted by the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine found that snorting cocaine severely increases the risk of strokes. Dr. Yu-Ching Cheng, an assistant professor of ...

While marijuana has been known to effectively treat HIV symptoms such as weight loss and chronic pain, the findings of a new study determined that it might also be able to stop the spread of ...

In January, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released an extensive set of resources for parents, health care providers, and substance abuse treatment specialists to help them better identify, treat, monitor, and interact with ...

Dr. Billy Chen, Dr. Antonello Bonci, and their colleagues recently discovered that stimulating the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in cocaine-addicted rats has stopped compulsive drug-seeking. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the researchers ...