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The "opioid crisis" claimed the lives of over 80,000 Americans last year, and that figure was a 27 percent drop on the drug overdose death toll in 2023.

The team behind the Brain-PACER: Brain Pacemaker Addiction Control to End Relapse study is currently recruiting individuals with severe alcohol or opioid addiction who are interested in taking part.

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In August 2021, while promoting her new book “Dopamine Nation,” the Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke ...

Kirsten E. Smith, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, disputes the definition of addiction as a chronic brain disease. “I am not in recovery,” she said.

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests. Advanced Search.

Internet addiction is associated with disrupted signaling in brain regions important for functions such as managing attention, a new study of teens has found. CNN values your feedback 1.

Distinct brain circuits drive two key components of addiction to the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, according to a new finding published in Nature (2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07440-x). The ...