But buprenorphine’s strength as a treatment is also a weakness. Buprenorphine is an opioid. Like methadone, the tightly ...

Efforts to battle drug addiction in some cities have hit roadblocks as governmental red tape can slow the creation of ...

Dr. David Barbe, a Mercy Family Physician, said there is a disease that underlies the addiction. “So we understand now that addiction is a brain disease,” said Dr. Barbe. “There’s ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been a major challenge in treating brain diseases. Now, researchers have explored how cholesterol-modified heteroduplex oligonucleotides ...

That’s because exercise and drugs of misuse work on similar parts of your brain. They both activate ... to know exactly how exercise affects addiction. But studies show it might: Ease withdrawal.