Below, STAT previews the three key questions that could define a potentially busy year in the worlds of substance use and ...

The CMS Innovation Center has debuted a new model to encourage the use of technology to treat chronic diseases, which could be a boon for health tech companies that have struggled with reimbursement.

Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD) in the ...

Psychiatrist Robert Custer spent his life convincing doctors that compulsive gambling was not an impulse control problem. Today, his research is foundational for diagnosis and treatment.

British actress and model Sophie Sumner, a former winner of America's Next Top Model, has revealed the pressure after winning the reality TV series was so severe that she spiralled into addiction and ...