Here, we’ll look at five of the most addictive substances and explain how they impact the brain in simple terms. Heroin is an ...

People suffering from severe alcohol and opioid addiction are to be offered a revolutionary new technique involving planting electrodes in the brain to modulate brain activity and cravings and improve ...

Since 1999, the American opioid epidemic has killed more than half a million people, and the staggering majority have been ...

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The opioid epidemic has claimed more than half a million lives in the U.S. since 1999, about three-quarters of them men, according to the National Institutes of Health.

People suffering from severe alcohol and opioid addiction are to be offered a revolutionary new technique involving planting electrodes in the brain to modulate brain activity and cravings and improve ...

The brain and the spinal cord have opioid receptors that help regulate ... sleepiness and a deadly side effect called respiratory depression, which is when your natural drive to breathe is reduced ...

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Brain cells (magenta ... Is there a perfect combination of hormones that can reverse the effects of pain on opioid use? That’s something we’d like to find out.” The authors declare no ...

The round, which included more than a dozen investment firms, should give the startup enough cash to get late-stage data for ...

and also could lower the addiction risk from opioids. “The main goal would be to combine the actual effect of a drug with a proven efficacy with the actual placebo effect produced by the brain ...