BOSTON — The U.S. government’s top addiction researcher is calling for broad deregulation of methadone, a key drug used to treat opioid use disorder. American doctors should “absolutely” be allowed to ...

David Sheff wrote a beautiful book called, appropriately enough, Beautiful Boy — A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction, one of the most compelling portrayals I've ever read of a ...

In 2003, the year Nora Volkow was appointed director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, roughly 13,000 Americans died of opioid overdose. In the two decades since, the overdose crisis has ...

Dr. Nora Volkow has seen the ravages of addiction first hand. Growing up in Mexico City, Volkow watched as a beloved uncle battled alcoholism — an experience that, among others, prompted her to devote ...

The top addiction researcher in the U.S. government is calling for the broad deregulation of methadone — a medication that can reduce dependency on opioids — in a major departure from how it is ...

A record number of Americans died of a drug overdose in 2020, and that represents nearly a 30% increase from the year before, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Dalton Delan, a columnist for The Berkshire Eagle, interviewed Dr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes on Health, about the growing presence of ...

If drug addiction is a disease like cancer or Alzheimer's, how do you explain the seemingly amoral behavior — the lying, cheating, and hiding — that has come to be linked with so many addicts? The ...

Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, ranks as one of the U.S.'s leading addiction researchers. She's helped demonstrate that addiction is in fact a disease — a disease of the ...

The head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse said there’s no evidence that marijuana weans people from opioid addiction – and promoting such treatment might deny people a chance at recovery. The ...

Early data regarding the use of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy to treat addiction is “very, very, exciting,” Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said Thursday ...

Only the weak become addicted. If that's what you think, Dr. Nora Volkow is determined to change your mind. The director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA, part of the National Institutes ...