The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University is a science-based, multidisciplinary organization focused on transforming society's understanding of and response to the ...

An ingredient in the prescription diabetes drug Mounjaro was found to reduce alcohol intake in rodents, according to a recent study. In the study, published in early January in the medical journal ...

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening to coordinate a federal government response to drug addiction and substance abuse. According to a White House fact sheet, the ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services is reinstating $2 billion in funds to address substance abuse and mental health after the department said it would cancel funds the day before, ...

The Trump administration has reversed cuts to grants for mental health and addiction treatment programs that were valued at nearly $2 billion. Thousands of federal grants supporting the programs were ...

Substance use disorder is defined in the DSM-5-TR. It includes alcohol, stimulants, opioids, sedatives, cannabis, and tobacco, among others. Substance use disorder is a treatable, chronic condition in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CALL IT "DAMP" January. (Or not?) Call it "Dry-Ish" January, "sober curious," or just plain cutting back on alcohol. All those ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. For most Americans, alcohol has historically been perceived as ...

What happened: Health Connect, Google’s backend service for syncing your health apps, is getting a serious glow-up in Android 16. It started back in 2022 as a way to just move data around, but now ...

Drug addiction recovery looks different for everyone. Specific approaches for people on the autism spectrum may help more than traditional substance use disorder treatment. NINA MOINI: Those who have ...

A new study has found that substance use disorders (SUD) cost the U.S. economy just under $93 billion in 2023 from a combination of missed work, reduced work productivity and lost household ...