Students share calls to action on Oklahoma's drug use crisis | Letters

Social work students at the University of Oklahoma offer solutions and calls to action amid state's growing substance abuse ...

RIZE Prevention 'Loves' And Mentors Teens To Avoid Substance Abuse Before It Begins

RIZE Prevention Mentors Teens To Avoid Substance Abuse Before It Begins ...
The New York Times

An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn’t It Used More?

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...
Los Angeles Times

You need more than Ozempic to fight food addiction. Here’s how

Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new book, “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight” ...
Psychology TodayOpinion

Addiction: A Disease Both Like and Unlike Many Others

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.
The New York Times

It Was a Promising Addiction Treatment. Many Patients Never Got It.

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...
Psychology TodayOpinion

Addiction and the Psychology of Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicide

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...