Rutgers‑led study of 2.2 million people finds addiction risk is driven more by genes tied to impulse control and reward ...

A study explored how genes shape a person’s predisposition to alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and opioid use disorders. The findings published in Na | Health And Medicine ...

Recently I found myself at a Writers’ Festival in Sydney Australia, extremely jet-lagged, flogging my book, doing radio interviews a couple of times a day... And the same question kept coming up: Is ...

Both of her biological parents struggled with addiction, and now she is terrified that the pattern is folding back into her ...

Prescient Medicine created a genetic test to assess individual risk of opioid addiction, according to a study published in Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science. Researchers developed the test after ...

A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person’s risk of developing an addiction and their educational attainment. Researchers found that some genetic ...

Addiction treatment is not the same for everyone. What works for one person may not work for another. That’s where genetic ...

In a study with 18 adults who had never smoked, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have demonstrated one of the earliest steps — nicotine "reinforcement" — in the process of addiction, and shown ...

How does alcohol change your brain at a genetic level? A new study reveals that alcohol metabolites directly alter epigenetic ...

Discovered: looking at violent images is unhealthy; a smart carpet; the gene that could be responsible for Internet addiction; infrared camera finds public drunks. Camera locates drunks in public.