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Addiction — Instantaneous and Irreversible?

One dose of morphine or cocaine can almost immediately (within three hours, anyway) initiate physical changes in the brain.

Using Lifestyle Medicine to Treat Illness by Changing Behavior

Lifestyle medicine is a six-sided approach to improving lifestyles as a treatment for chronic disease.

A Revolution in Treatment for Substance Use Disorders

More than a dozen startup companies are in competition to perfect telehealth addiction treatment programs.

Polysubstance Abuse: The Changing Shape of the Opioid Crisis

Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are causing a third wave of polysubstance abuse and overdose deaths.

BrainWeighve Eating Addiction Telehealth App Expands UCLA Trial

Telehealth provider, eHealth International, expands their UCLA trial of weight loss app, BrainWeighve.

Chaos Behind the Wheel

The neurobiology of addiction is one of the strongest forces to affect human behavior. How a particular person reacts can depend on many factors. It’s physical too.