A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

The Department of Psychiatry gives residents the opportunity to train in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry to help those battling substance use disorders and addiction through our fellowship ...

The Baylor College of Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship holds accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education since 2008. Our program is a one-year (PGY-5) training ...

Scientists have found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what ...

Nearly a decade into the opioid epidemic and in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians in America seem to remain uncertain about how to identify and treat patients with addiction disorders, a ...

Addiction flagged as hidden barrier to student success in higher education ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. Having watched ...

Scientists say they've uncovered striking new evidence of how alcohol addiction impacts the brain's learning systems—and how those systems may slowly adapt during recovery—in a new study published in ...

If you can increase education, you can reduce smoking, which has many detrimental effects. The causal effect of education on smoking is an additional benefit of education. This study also investigates ...

Dr. Ellen Unterwald in one of the labs at the Center for Substance Abuse Research at Temple Medical School in Philadelphia, Pa. on Friday, June 29, 2018. (Jessica Griffin/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS) Dr ...