For many Americans, a routine surgical procedure serves as their first introduction to opioid pain medication. While most ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

Over the past 12 months, hundreds of peer-reviewed cannabis-related studies have been released, covering everything from pain ...

Medicaid is the largest payer of substance use disorder treatment in the US, 8 covering approximately 38 percent of nonelderly adults with OUD as of 2019. 9 The Substance Use Disorder Prevention that ...

Researchers report a preclinical gene therapy that selectively targets pain-processing circuits in the brain, aiming to relieve chronic pain without activating pathways linked to addiction. Using ...

Background: The growing adoption of AI in the workplace has emerged as a distinct occupational stressor, influencing employees’ psychological states and extending its effects into their family lives—a ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource examining how opioid tolerance develops and why it plays a significant role in substance use disorder ...