Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline ...

When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

Researchers have used mouse models to study how cocaine addiction alters the brain, illuminating why relapse is common as ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For the first time in decades, a historic and “earth-shattering” shift in drug-related fatalities is occurring in Cuyahoga County: cocaine is now responsible for more deaths than ...

The drug semaglutide—licensed for diabetes under Ozempic and weight loss under Wegovy—could help to reduce cocaine addiction. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the University ...