BrainWeighve Eating Addiction Telehealth App Expands UCLA Trial
Telehealth provider, eHealth International, expands their UCLA trial of weight loss app, BrainWeighve.
Global Conference on Addiction and Psychiatry (GAP 2026)
Dr. Robert Pretlow, publisher of AddictionNews, lays out the unified theory of addiction at GAP 2026.
Cancer Rates Linked to Alcohol Use Doubled Since 1990
A new study links alcohol use to an increased risk for colorectal, esophageal, breast, pancreatic, and prostate cancers. Less than half of American adults know the correlation between drinking and cancer.
Fentanyl Vaccine May Move to Human Trials
Chemists develop a vaccine that could enable the body’s immune system to identify fentanyl molecules, creating an internal “stop sign.”
Infinite Scroll, Autoplay Coming to a Stop in California
New laws in California require social media companies to either stop offering “addictive” tools like infinite scroll and autoplay to users under 16 or keep those users off their platforms entirely.
All in the Bloody Family
As all the world knows, Nick Reiner, age 33, is in police custody as the suspected killer last December 14 of his parents, Hollywood luminaries Rob and Michele Reiner.
Rise of the Cigfluencer
The rise of smoking and its popularity with Gen Z tracks with the rise in social media use and the loneliness epidemic.