Researchers analyze 2.2 million genomes to show that addiction risk is primarily driven by broad genes affecting brain wiring and impulse control, not drug-specific traits.

Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how our brains process ...

Some researchers, such as at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, seek to identify genes common to addictive disorders based on information from the DNA code of more than a ...

At 17, he started his long journey through addiction treatment units. Now 22, he has been treated numerous times in the psychiatric unit of his local hospital for bipolar disorder, dual diagnosis, and ...

Just before Christmas, the FDA approved a new tool in the government’s unrelenting and largely unsuccessful battle on opioid abuse. The tool screens for a genetic susceptibility to opioid use disorder ...

Recently I found myself at a Writers’ Festival in Sydney Australia, extremely jet-lagged, flogging my book, doing radio interviews a couple of times a day... And the same question kept coming up: Is ...

Patients now have access to a prescription genetic test that could indicate their risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) before beginning treatment with an opioid pain medication. The Food and Drug ...

Rutgers Brain Health Institute supports students through federally funded training grants, scholar programs, and ...

Regular series of talks about the neuroscientific, genetic and social aspects of alcohol drinking and the development of Alcohol Use Disorder.

BACKGROUND: According to the American Lung Association, cigarette smoking is the most important source of preventable deaths and illnesses and early deaths worldwide. Many of these deaths are a result ...

Prescient Medicine created a genetic test to assess individual risk of opioid addiction, according to a study published in Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science. Researchers developed the test after ...