At its core, addiction is an illness. That being said, many factors can contribute to the development of an addiction. Things ...

Opioids are often shown in movies, music, and social media as party drugs, symbols of fun, rebellion, or a carefree lifestyle ...

Researchers report October 25 in the journal Neuron that cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how we perceive and learn from rewards. Though people with cocaine addiction have ...

ATLANTA, GA -- People addicted to cocaine have an impaired ability to perceive rewards and exercise control due to disruptions in the brain's reward and control circuits, according to a series of ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new local study on the perception of drug addicts has some surprising results. Workers at the Center for Addiction Treatment conducted the survey and say half of the people they ...

NORWICH - The scene unfolds each week on Tuesday around mid-morning, when a nondescript white van pulls into the parking lot behind the old YMCA, backing into a corner spot adjacent to the train ...

Researchers carrying out functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in different areas of the human brain have discovered how cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how ...

Last Thursday, the East Liverpool, Ohio Police Department posted on Facebook photographs of a 4-year-old boy in a blue dinosaur t-shirt — his face, alas, not blurred– sitting in the backseat of a car ...

In a hilarious Cheech and Chong movie episode, the two were stoned and, aware of being impaired, were driving as carefully as possible in order not to be noticed by police, only to realize they were ...

In a hilarious Cheech and Chong movie episode, the two were stoned and, aware of being impaired, were driving as carefully as possible in order not to be noticed by police, only to realize they were ...

Feel like you're addicted to porn? Your religion could have something to do with your answer. Compared with their less spiritual peers, people who identified as very religious were more likely to have ...