Evidence is mounting that the wildly popular weight-loss medicines known as GLP-1s may also hold potential for treating ...

New research suggests the weight-loss medications could be powerful tools in tackling substance use disorders.

GLP-1 medications may quiet the brain signals behind addiction, reducing substance use disorders and overdose risk across ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for ...

A new study found GLP-1 drugs were associated with 50% fewer substance-related deaths, 39% fewer drug overdoses, and 26% ...

A study suggests weight-loss medication may lower addiction risk, but experts urge caution and call for further clinical ...

A class of medications best known for treating diabetes and obesity may also reduce the risk of addiction—and help people who ...

A therapist who treats phone addictions says the withdrawal symptoms people suffer are similar to those experienced by drug addicts. Lee Fernandes, 48, is an Addiction Specialist at UKAT, an ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, a video of Alexa went viral where she detailed the horrors of living on the streets of Los Angeles.

A former heroin addict, the HHS nominee has special insight into how to solve the nation’s drug crisis. Sally Satel sorts the good ideas from the destructive. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as ...

A drug addict that allowed a Nottingham-based county lines gang to use her home to store and deal class-A drugs has been sentenced. Police said Jeanette Talbot, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was ...