The assumption that addiction is always harmful has gotten us nowhere toward helping kids or regulating the corporations that ...

Ian Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Wendy Wood is professor emerita of psychology and business at the University of Southern California.

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...

New research suggests the weight-loss medications could be powerful tools in tackling substance use disorders.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - March 06, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Grace Point Treatment Center has published a new educational ...

I don’t drink anymore. I don’t smoke anymore.” He might have shrugged it off, but reports accumulated in his clinic and ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - March 10, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Grace Point Treatment Center has released a new educational ...

Evidence is mounting that the wildly popular weight-loss medicines known as GLP-1s may also hold potential for treating addiction, and the field may be on the verge of obtaining desperately needed ...

Problematic TikTok use must be considered an addiction for the risk it entails and its developmental trajectory, scientists have warned.

A new study finds that popular GLP-1 drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity show new promise in fighting multiple substance use disorders.