After her son’s death, Melissa Etheridge turned her grief into advocacy by creating a foundation to support new research into ...

Weight loss injections have become a popular choice to help people curb their appetite, but can they curb addiction, as well?

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Former President Donald Trump has unveiled an ambitious plan to address the ongoing opioid epidemic, focusing on expanding ...

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But weight loss alone does not explain the drugs’ benefits. Both Holst and Sattar pointed to a discontinued GLP-1 drug once ...

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Shaped by his own addiction, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is embracing ideologically flexible approaches to the opioid epidemic.

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Because much is at stake in addiction treatment, a large industry has arisen to meet the needs of often-desperate substance users and their families; it is extremely important to select care ...

The researchers also looked at naltrexone, a drug approved to treat opioid and alcohol use disorder. They found it was associated with a 14% reduction in the risk of hospitalization for issues ...