Many of the new bills in Sacramento aim to remedy the flaws exposed in the audit. The League of California Cities has thrown its weight behind three of them: Senate Bill 329, Assembly Bill 424 and ...

Researchers have debunked key beliefs about addiction, like that a person must hit "rock bottom" before having treatment or ...

Regardless of what you see in the movies or on television, most people dealing with substance abuse can recover successfully.

Amid sports betting boom, a new study found a 23% jump in people searching for the phrase: "Am I addicted to gambling?" ...

New research shows more people are looking for help with gambling addictions since the Supreme Court cleared the way for ...

New Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Professor and Chairman of the Psychiatry Department Dr. Rajendra Badgaiyan was drawn to the Permian Basin by the new behavioral health hospital being ...

Though more research is needed to understand who might benefit from GLP-1 agonists for addiction, early studies suggest that the approach holds promise.

A study shows more people are looking for help to manage gambling addiction, in the years after a Supreme Court decision ...

People in their late teens and early 20s may be more sensitive to nicotine and more susceptible to nicotine addiction than ...

A small but significant new study showed low doses of Ozempic helped people to drink less. Scientists are starting to ...

Now, one type of weight-loss medication is proving helpful with another health issue. In a study published Feb. 12 in JAMA ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...