Scientists in Brazil are developing the first vaccine against cocaine addiction. The potentially miraculous jab, named Calixcoca, is designed to trigger an immune response that blocks the drug from ...

Study: Molecular and circuit determinants in the globus pallidus mediating control of cocaine-induced behavioral plasticity. Image Credit: Alex Mit / Shutterstock.com Ventral tegmental area dopamine ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have created a unique, cell-by-cell atlas of the amygdala, a small structure deep ...

Kristen Maddox was desperate. She was strung out on crack cocaine and pregnant when she pushed open the door of what she thought was an abortion clinic. The door opened instead to a Christian crisis ...

Researchers report that cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how we perceive and learn from rewards. Though people with cocaine addiction have similar expectations of rewards ...

While the group’s leader and co-founder Chuck D was preaching to the Black community to do better, the epidemic had infiltrated Public Enemy. The Public Enemy 1988 song about crack use, “Night of the ...

If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline via call, text or chat. A new study finds that addiction to social media, mobile phones and video games is linked to ...

A new study published in European Neuropsychopharmacology suggests that semaglutide, a drug already used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, may also help reduce cocaine use, drug-seeking behavior, ...

Hunter Biden isn’t hiding from his mistakes. Six months after former President Joe Biden pardoned his son’s convictions on federal tax evasion and firearm charges, the 55-year-old shared rare insight ...