Recently I found myself at a Writers’ Festival in Sydney Australia, extremely jet-lagged, flogging my book, doing radio interviews a couple of times a day... And the same question kept coming up: Is ...

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 ...

With the influx of media coverage around alcohol usage and its health risks, I thought I would take a look at my addictions and the science behind them. My father was an alcoholic from his adolescence ...

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 ...

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 ...

(RTTNews) - Adial Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ADIL) announced the issuance of a new U.S. patent No. 12,226,401 expanding its genetic-based approach to treating and diagnosing alcohol use disorder or AUD ...

A new study questioned the clinical utility of an algorithm meant to predict opioid use disorder (OUD) risk based on 15 genetic variants. In a case-control analysis of more than 450,000 adults, the 15 ...

Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how our brains process rewards, regulate impulses and weigh consequences – not from genes that ...

Marshall University was awarded a $3.3 million grant (#R01DA057931) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to examine the genetic mechanisms that underlie fentanyl addiction. In 2022, ...

A study has found gene variants that impact both addiction and education attainment in opposite directions -- a higher genetic risk for addiction was related with an increased chance of a lower ...

In a study with 18 adults who had never smoked, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have demonstrated one of the earliest steps — nicotine "reinforcement" — in the process of addiction, and shown ...

Discovered: looking at violent images is unhealthy; a smart carpet; the gene that could be responsible for Internet addiction; infrared camera finds public drunks. Camera locates drunks in public.