The medication, typically used for weight loss or diabetes treatment, is showing promise curbing cravings for alcohol and ...

Every addiction is characterized by a strong desire for a certain addictive substance, be it nicotine, alcohol or other drug. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recently conducted a ...

Experts are already treating addicted people with at-home neuromodulation devices to control cravings, and the future is ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A novel study may provide an answer to a question that has puzzled drug abuse researchers for years -- namely, why someone would try a drug like heroin for the first time ...

Mount Sinai researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder—known as the orbitofrontal cortex ...

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials launched an education campaign yesterday to let doctors and heroin users know there's a new medication that can help curb addicts' cravings -- and for the first ...

For hundreds of years, craving has been recognized as a central causal feature of addiction and relapse in overeating, gambling, and other addictions. But what causes craving, how one ends cravings, ...

DENVER — A weight-loss drug used to treat obesity and diabetes has shown promise to treat another disorder: opioid addiction. Early results from a small clinical trial, presented February 17 at the ...