Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

Just before Christmas, the FDA approved a new tool in the government’s unrelenting and largely unsuccessful battle on opioid abuse. The tool screens for a genetic susceptibility to opioid use disorder ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

Are you mostly a product of the genes you inherit or your experiences in life? This question intrigues many people, including addiction researchers. In this post, I provide an overview of key research ...

FILE - A man holds his prescription for Suboxone, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, in Greenfield, Mass. Geneticists and addiction specialists are blasting the Food and Drug ...

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has received a hefty grant to study addiction and its genetic basis. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has approved a five-year, $8 ...

A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person’s risk of developing an addiction and their educational attainment. Researchers found that some genetic ...

Prescient Medicine created a genetic test to assess individual risk of opioid addiction, according to a study published in Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science. Researchers developed the test after ...

BACKGROUND: According to the American Lung Association, cigarette smoking is the most important source of preventable deaths and illnesses and early deaths worldwide. Many of these deaths are a result ...

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