Are you worried your substance use is out of control? No one sets out to become addicted, and no brain malfunction causes addiction. Some substances have been so refined to maximize their rewarding ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Love addiction is a psychological condition characterized by an obsessive need ...

In the next 24 hours, more than 130 people will die from opioid-related drug overdoses. That will happen again tomorrow and the next day. Each year, the U.S. is losing roughly 110,000 people to these ...

A test that uses a cheek swab to assess whether people have an elevated risk of becoming addicted to opioid medications received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this week.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first test for assessing the risk of opioid use addiction in specific individuals. It is a prescription-use only genetic laboratory test intended ...

FILE - A man holds his prescription for Suboxone, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, in Greenfield, Mass. Geneticists and addiction specialists are blasting the Food and Drug ...

The FDA is facing backlash for approving a genetic test that is supposed to show if you are at risk for an opioid addiction. A group of scientists and researchers say that this test does not predict ...

BI spoke to 13 financial professionals about drugs on Wall Street, from cocaine to psychedelics. The conversations come amid a rise in substance abuse and drug overdose deaths. Here is a list of ...

Patients now have access to a prescription genetic test that could indicate their risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) before beginning treatment with an opioid pain medication. The Food and Drug ...