Drug addiction manifests as a compulsive drive to take a drug despite serious adverse consequences. This aberrant behaviour has traditionally been viewed as bad 'choices' that are made voluntarily ...

Meditation and taking walks with her 10-year-old son help to calm the battle now, but she's still struggling to finally quit her decades-long drug addiction. Windsor shelter closer to adding ...

Meanwhile, the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities Adult substance misuse treatment statistics 2022 to 2023: report, revealed there were 291,000 adults in contact with drug and alcohol ...

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain and behavior. With drug addiction, you can’t resist the urge to use them. If you’re worried that you or a loved one may have an addiction ...

Newly published research is the latest to suggest that semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs can help treat people’s addiction to both opioids and alcohol. GLP-1 drugs have been a valuable treatment ...

But what addiction may come down to for everyone is the emotional and physical appeal of a substance at a particular moment in a person’s life. The effects of drugs are pleasurable and rewarding ...

A person with an addiction uses a substance, or engages in a behavior, for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeat the activity, despite detrimental consequences.

Weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro could be used to treat drug and alcohol addiction in the future — according to the first large-scale study — but more research is needed. An ...

Mr Dobson added it was important to acknowledge the suffering addiction causes to others. He said: "I never wanted to hurt my family and friends but that was the reality of my drug and alcohol use ...

JD Vance chronicled his mother’s struggles to raise him amid addiction in his best-selling book. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press) JD Vance made a brief mention of his mother’s drug addiction in ...

In their paper published in journal, CNS Drugs ... The author of a book called Hooked On Games: The Lure And Cost Of Video Games And Internet Addiction, he says that the internet should be ...

Every dollar you give helps us continue to shine a light on these critical issues in the run up to the election and beyond Eric Roberts has shared how his previous drug addiction impacted his ...