An artificial intelligence (AI)-driven screening tool successfully identified hospitalized adults at risk for opioid use ...

NIH-supported clinical trial shows AI tool as effective as healthcare providers in generating referrals to addiction specialists.

Technology use and addiction in young people are causing serious harm to brain function, physical health, and mental well-being. These consequences are too severe to ignore, making it crucial that we ...

Objective: To evaluate literature reporting on the role of norepinephrine in alcohol withdrawal and to determine the safety and efficacy of α 2-agonists in reducing symptoms of this severe condition.

Heavy drinkers had a 133% higher chance of having brain lesions compared with nondrinkers, a study found. A medical expert explains how much alcohol is too much.

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making.

All of our patient's symptoms were typical of ethanol and benzodiazepine withdrawal syndromes. The patient received several doses of lorazepam, with no subsequent improvement in any of her symptoms.

In new rat studies, scientists have found, for the first time, proof of just how bad alcohol impairs cognition — even when ...

People with schizophrenia may be more likely to experience false memories. Symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions concerning things that are not real may give rise to a person believing ...