Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...

Participants in a deep brain stimulation trial for drug addiction say the implants triggered compulsive behavior that upended ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

A new study from the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity suggests that a chocolate milkshake and a line of cocaine might not be so different. The study, published Monday in the Archives of ...

Drug-laced vape liquids can alter perception within seconds, with fast-acting substances such as etomidate driving rapid ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that may explain why people recovering from drug addiction often relapse. Repeated ...

University of Florida neuroscientists showed methamphetamine triggered a feedback loop between dopamine and the inflammatory protein TNF in mouse brains.

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...