A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

A new training and development resource is available to the state’s addiction and substance use prevention professionals. The New Jersey Prevention Network recently launched The Learning Center. The ...

Having watched family members struggle with substance use disorders, recent University of Minnesota Twin Cities graduate Madelyn Blake wanted to change the way addiction is treated and discussed. Now, ...

The Department of Psychiatry gives residents the opportunity to train in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry to help those battling substance use disorders and addiction through our fellowship ...

Nearly a decade into the opioid epidemic and in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians in America seem to remain uncertain about how to identify and treat patients with addiction disorders, a ...

My name is Daryl Shorter, M.D., and I am the training director for the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. I love the culture at Baylor College of Medicine. Baylor’s curriculum lends itself to a unique ...

Scientists have found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what ...

New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published ...

Some say kratom is as addictive as heroin; others say it's the cure to their chronic pain. The supplement is easily accessible across the country. To find out how individuals in the metro have been ...

A central message of the Ohio Opioid Education Alliance’s current campaign, Beat the Stigma, is that addiction and mental illness stem largely from family history — not from poor choices, weak ...