James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The ...

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 ...

The drug helped Ms. Massarone, who had also battled obesity, lose 17 pounds. Critically, it also allowed her to overcome drug ...

New research suggests that diabetes and weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists may also help treat alcohol and ...

In a small Phase II trial, people with cocaine use disorder who took mavoglurant used the drug less often over a three month period than those on a placebo. reading time 2 minutes There’s new hope for ...

A popular class of therapies for treating diabetes and obesity may also have the potential to treat alcohol and drug ...

Many studies over the past 25 years have shown that high-sugar and other highly pleasurable foods – often foods that are ultraprocessed – act on these brain networks in ways that are similar to other ...