A study of more than 600,000 veterans found that GLP-1 drugs — originally designed for diabetes and weight loss — cut ...

As Malaysia has moved closer and closer to banning all vaping products, residents have expressed concern over the real-life ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that reinforce repeated use and make quitting extremely difficult. For decades, ...

GLP-1 medications may also fight addiction, says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly whose team researched trends from GLP-1 use in 600,000 ...

Prevalence of past-30-day nicotine vaping declined from 17.8% in 2020 to 10.1% in 2024 in a pooled sample of more than 115,000 U.S. teens. However, among more than 15,000 teens who currently vaped, ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The new $2.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will help researchers on a new study. The ...

Achieve Life Sciences, Inc. has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. FDA for cytisinicline, which, if approved, would be the first new pharmacotherapy for nicotine dependence in 20 years ...

People who smoke can become physically dependent on nicotine, which is the chemical in tobacco products that makes them addictive. Individuals who vape may also experience this physical dependency.

When I was in medical training in the 1970s, 40 percent of adults in the U.S. smoked cigarettes. There were cigarette vending machines everywhere, cigarettes cost a low 40 cents per pack, making teen ...