Exenatide (Ex-4), a glucagonlike peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist currently used in the management of type 2 diabetes, could effectively treat drug addiction, including cocaine dependence, new ...

Ana Clara Bobadilla receives funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards.

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

A class of powerful drugs can dramatically change people’s body weight. But one of the drugs’ most alluring jobs may happen in a spot that’s harder to see: the brain. Some people taking drugs such as ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century ...

Weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy are showing promise in treating drug and alcohol addiction. Research ...

Pa. Representatives Jamie Flick and Arvind Venkat have teamed up to tackle stimulant use disorder, a growing problem that ...

Drug overdoses across the state declined by 25.6% last year, dropping from 1,948 deaths in 2023 to 1,450 in 2024. This marks ...

Casey Arnold, who lives in a suburb of Houston, spent years trying to quit smoking. She’d tried nicotine patches. That failed. She tried quitting cold turkey but that made her short tempered. On other ...

"I never felt this type of pain ever in my life," the rapper said, reflecting on his past addiction to lean, a cough syrup liquid mixture containing codeine Paras Griffin/Getty Bow Wow is reflecting ...