Because repeated use of a psychoactive substance often creates the motivation for further use, substance abuse is seen as a self-perpetuating disorder and considered to have a high potential for ...

Providers of mental health services are now being advised to ask young people presenting with symptoms of psychosis if they ...

National Drug Use Survey conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed an alarming reality: 14.3 ...

Adolescent substance use is a significant predictor of future addiction and related disorders. Understanding neural mechanisms underlying substance use initiation and frequency during adolescence ...

the repeated use of psychoactive drugs reprograms various circuits in the brain, and especially in its dopamine-rich reward center, so that they increasingly depend on the substance (dependence).

Anywhere from 2 million to 15 million people use kratom each year. While the substance does induce feelings of mild euphoria, ...

The Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs announced an investment of more than $2 million in grant funding for five Pennsylvania organizations to help improve Pennsylvanians’ access to substance use ...

The Monitoring the Future survey since 1975 has provided a national snapshot on the state of substance ... about their use of delta-8 THC, which is a variant of the main psychoactive compound ...

Ibogaine—a psychoactive plant derivative—has attracted ... Olson noted that the compound is gaining popularity as a treatment for substance use disorders, traumatic brain injury and other ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open has found that subtle differences in brain structure during late childhood are ...