The intake of addictive substances is thought to be motivated by the expected benefits associated with the substance, either in terms of pleasure (Robinson and Berridge, 1993; Wise, 1988) or as a ...

An effective treatment for opioid addiction is easier to get after the Biden administration changed rules. That's making a difference for some... New rules should make methadone easier to get, but ...

The state’s opioid crisis, compounded by the 2014 closing of the 700-bed Long Island sh elter and its recovery programs, has made the Methadone Mile scene more pronounced. But Gaeta still sees reason ...

America’s sky-high rate of fatal fentanyl overdoses could be halved if users were treated with another opioid, Biden administration officials and a bipartisan group of senators believe. They and ...

BOSTON — The U.S. government’s top addiction researcher is calling for broad deregulation of methadone, a key drug used to treat opioid use disorder. American doctors should “absolutely” be allowed to ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday will debate an addiction medicine proposal that would have been considered unthinkable just years ago: giving a select group of doctors the power to prescribe methadone directly ...

It should be easier to get methadone today than it has been in decades. In April, 2024, the federal government relaxed some of the rules around the treatment for opioid addiction. But many patients ...