young teenager girl hand using mobile phone or smartphone on gray wall background Determining when smartphone use has become an addiction in patients is tricky. Researchers outline what to look for.

Stepping up efforts to address the opioid crisis, Northwell Health expanded 'universal' drug screening to its children's hospital. As part of efforts for early detection and diagnosis of opioid ...

A test that uses a cheek swab to assess whether people have an elevated risk of becoming addicted to opioid medications received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this week.

Just before Christmas, the FDA approved a new tool in the government’s unrelenting and largely unsuccessful battle on opioid abuse. The tool screens for a genetic susceptibility to opioid use disorder ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A new statewide assessment is set to find the best way to move forward with the fight against substance abuse in Kansas. The Sunflower Foundation says that it has chosen the ...

Prescient Medicine created a genetic test to assess individual risk of opioid addiction, according to a study published in Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science. Researchers developed the test after ...

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“I want to be a drug addict when I grow up,” said no child ever. Yet during the past two decades, there has been a meteoric rise in the number of people diagnosed with substance use disorders, as well ...

A group of more than 10 representatives from South Lake Tahoe and Placerville health agencies spent two hours at the public library hammering out a grant proposal to provide substance abuse screening ...