Ziyad Al-Aly receives funding from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his ...

A high-stakes trial sparked by a California woman who first logged onto social media at age 10. Another lawsuit in Georgia filed by a school district despairing at distracted students. Dozens more ...

Emma Fenske, DO does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them. Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified ...

Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced that his department will devote $100 million toward a pilot program addressing homelessness and substance abuse in eight ...

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening to coordinate a federal government response to drug addiction and substance abuse. According to a White House fact sheet, the ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The disease of addiction, also known as substance use disorder, is a crisis that touches families in every community and neighborhood in our Nation. 48.4 million ...

Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and death. These can be the consequences for vulnerable kids who get addicted to social media, according to more than 1,000 personal injury lawsuits that seek to ...

Landmark trials will test a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products. By Cecilia Kang Reporting from Washington. This year, the ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...