People with substance use disorder—whether addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or nicotine—share a strikingly similar ...

Researchers at the University of Houston and the University of Cincinnati are using machine learning to create a clearer picture of how heroin affects the brain, potentially opening new doors for ...

Is Häagen-Dazs ice cream as addictive as heroin? Or, put another way, is heroin as addictive as Häagen-Dazs?more Depending on how you phrase the question, you’re either asking whether heroin addiction ...

If there is a silver lining from the opioid crisis, it is that more money and programs are now in place to deal with the underlying problem of addiction. Throughout the past month, the Journal-News ...

NEW YORK - Heroin use in the United States has risen fivefold in the past decade and dependence on the drug has more than tripled, with the biggest jumps among whites and men with low incomes and ...