A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

Living with chronic pain is a challenge affecting millions of people daily. From back pain to arthritis, fibromyalgia to migraines, finding relief often requires a multifaceted approach. One of the ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

A new study finds chronic pain patients show a high prevalence of addiction to prescription pain medications, according to a news release by Geisinger Health System. The study by Geisinger researchers ...

A new scientific review of 148 studies enrolling over 4.3 million adult chronic pain patients treated with prescription opioid painkillers has found that nearly one in ten patients experiences opioid ...

A new treatment might just be hope for many people living with chronic pain. In a recent preclinical study, researchers ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – “When I was on pain meds and in pain all the time, you’re going through hell, and you are really just trying to make it sometimes, one hour at a time,” said Eric Bumpus, a 43-year-old ...

Nearly 1 in every 10 chronic pain patients treated with prescription opioids winds up addicted to the painkillers at some point, a new review finds. Further, nearly 1 in 3 will show symptoms of opioid ...

Widespread and unsupervised antacid and acid-suppressing drug use in India is being linked to kidney disease, heart rhythm ...