New treatments for addiction are urgently needed. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 107,941 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, an age-adjusted rate of 32.6 ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced a bit of fame in recent years, acting as a sort of buzzword to describe a ...

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 ...

When people overdose on opioids, whether they wake up on their own or are revived by Narcan, many doctors assume they are fully recovered. This is a mistake because hypoxia (insufficient oxygen to the ...

Gavin Dew is the MLA for Kelowna-Mission and the BC Conservatives' shadow critic for jobs, economic development and ...

A new review uncovers how chronic alcohol consumption accelerates Alzheimer’s pathology through oxidative stress and neuroinflammatory cascades, while spotlighting promising molecular and metabolic ...