A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

The Department of Psychiatry gives residents the opportunity to train in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry to help those battling substance use disorders and addiction through our fellowship ...

A new training and development resource is available to the state’s addiction and substance use prevention professionals. The New Jersey Prevention Network recently launched The Learning Center. The ...

New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published ...

Scientists have found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what ...

Having watched family members struggle with substance use disorders, recent University of Minnesota Twin Cities graduate Madelyn Blake wanted to change the way addiction is treated and discussed. Now, ...

Nearly a decade into the opioid epidemic and in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians in America seem to remain uncertain about how to identify and treat patients with addiction disorders, a ...

The program accommodates a total of four fellows each academic year. Each training year is divided into two six-month blocks. The second six-month block is composed of clinical rotations shared ...

There’s also an explosive escalation of online gambling, particularly sports betting, that is raising the stakes for the development of new behavioural addictions. Last year, the South African ...