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, ...

The history of breakthrough weight loss medicines is riddled with tragic results. Based on the histories of phen-fen and ...

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 ...

A British man who became a compulsive gambler and shopper after he was prescribed a medication for restless leg syndrome has received a £70,000 (NZ$153,000) settlement from his doctor, his lawyers ...

Many anxiety and antidepressant medications, such as paroxetine, escitalopram, and duloxetine, may cause weight gain. But weight gain isn’t guaranteed and shouldn’t stop you from seeking ...

Research suggests boosting endocannabinoids could lessen opioid addiction without affecting pain relief ... Rajadhyaksha said. Potential drugs like JZL184 are currently being tested in clinical trials ...