Prescription weight loss drugs have been lauded as the miracle drug for treating diabetes and obesity, but new research suggests that these drugs, known as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor ...

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Having succumbed to Britpop excess, the now sober – 6,854 days and counting – Secret Drug Addict is on a mission to help ...

We used to think that the brain, once damaged, could not repair itself. Breakthroughs in neuroscience have shown that this is not true. Though individual neurons might be damaged beyond repair, the ...

I saw two walking zombies, one just barely standing and the other shaking uncontrollably, outside the Eldorado Hotel & Spa as I was going to work. There doesn’t seem a way to fix drug addiction, ...

Thanks to Steven A. Schroeder for his opinion piece regarding alcoholism and drug addiction (“Grant Makers Must Attack Substance Abuse,” July 26.). This disease has been considered a moral issue for ...

As deaths stemming from opioid addiction on Long Island have reached unprecedented levels, law enforcement officials and health professionals have tried practically everything they can think of to ...

"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable." —Step 1 of 12, Alcoholics Anonymous “Hi my name is Adi and I’m an alcoholic.” Most of us are familiar with this ...

Butler County first responders aren’t just administering Narcan to drug addicts who overdose, Heroin Response Teams in Hamilton, Middletown and Oxford are on the streets encouraging addicts to get ...

It started with the Nintendo 64. Lauren recalls feverishly playing the '90s gaming console − and how it took priority over making friends or doing homework − when she was 8. Then, she says, it was her ...