George is now in recovery after a decade of addiction to ketamine. "I used to go to festivals and it was a cheap drug to get, ...

Researchers have made some surprising breakthroughs in 2024 addiction research, benefitting addicts and their families, as ...

If you or a loved one is struggling with anxiety or depression, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 800-662-4357 for information on ...

Beyond the treatment of MDD, some antidepressants can be used to treat anxiety or other mental health conditions, like seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Such actions can improve a person's mood.

It also leads the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates medications, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks overdoses. Addiction care has made agonizingly slow ...

Specifically speaking, Nelson counsels patients who are using Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT). As the name implies, medications are an element of MAT methods—but they aren’t the only ...

The 36-year-old from Glossop, in Derbyshire, was young, fit and a non-smoker - but he did have ... his GP put it down to stress and increased his anxiety medication. “I don’t think lung ...

James Mannion knew what he needed. For nine months, while incarcerated in a county jail in Portland, Maine, he pleaded for a medication called buprenorphine. Mannion, a barber, recreational ...

makes a third form of addiction medication: a long-acting, injectable form of naltrexone, which blocks opioids’ effects. Because naltrexone is not an opioid, it has been cast as a “non ...

Almost 15 years ago, in the midst of an opioid epidemic that would kill more than half a million people in the U.S., a startup formed with the aim of creating new, non-addictive pain drugs. This goal ...

Our study was aimed at a) the analysis of the extent of non-persistence with multiple medication classes, and b) identifying factors associated with the likelihood of non-persistence. Methods: In our ...