14 April 2023
The US has made a medication that rapidly reverses opioid overdoses available without prescription – it will no doubt prevent some deaths, but it’s not enough to tackle the opioid epidemic
29 March 2023
In the past two decades, death rates from drug overdoses have dramatically increased among adults 65 years and older living in the US
8 February 2023
Researchers have identified a brain pathway in mice that governs the development of opioid tolerance. If the same exists in humans, treatments that inhibit it could prevent opioid addiction
12 January 2023
Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder have all been linked to problems in the same circuit of brain regions
21 July 2022
A study in mice may help us understand how different people link positive or negative emotions to past events, in a discovery that could help treat post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and addiction
13 June 2022
Some smokers lose their cravings after experiencing damage to specific parts of the brain, suggesting these areas form a network that somehow fuels the habit
27 November 2019
Vaping was once thought to be "95 per cent safer than smoking", but a sudden rise in deaths and injury linked to e-cigarettes is causing some people to reconsider
20 November 2019
The idea that super-addictive foods are being engineered by corporate giants is a pervasive one. But trying to find science on this isn’t straightforward, says James Wong
2 October 2019
Illegal benzodiazepine drugs that cost as little as 15p per tablet are fuelling an overdose crisis in Scotland. How can we prevent hundreds more deaths?
15 May 2019
Doctors in the UK are concerned that it could follow the US into an opioid crisis, yet measures to prevent this could go too far and leave people in pain
