Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, will make a virtual presentation to UB at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1. Sponsored by the Office of ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The director of the National Institutes of Health gave a ringing endorsement to the nation’s top addiction researcher, Nora Volkow, this week ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently released several teaching tools to physicians to improve identification and treatment of patients suffering from substance abuse, according to an ...

If you tried to escape the horrors of the last year by doing your best “guy on the couch” cosplay, then you’re not alone. A recent study published by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) found ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

Experts call for rehabilitation instead of jail time for people with addiction. Drug and alcohol-related jail deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, according to a recent report from the Bureau of ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. BETHESDA, Md. — Nora Volkow, the federal government’s top drug addiction researcher, laughed when asked how a spate of recent policy changes ...

Editor's Note: The graphic at the end of this segment used imprecise terminology. The Legal Action Center survey referred to “substance use disorder.” This week, we are reporting on some promising ...

Leftover prescription drugs in the home that are no longer needed can have serious unintended consequences, which is why the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is partnering with communities ...

Federal agencies with oversight of illegal drugs say they support a Biden White House plan that would make it easier for scientists to conduct research on Schedule I drugs such as cannabis and some ...