Rutgers‑led study of 2.2 million people finds addiction risk is driven more by genes tied to impulse control and reward processing than by any drug.

A study explored how genes shape a person’s predisposition to alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and opioid use disorders. The findings published in Na | Health And Medicine ...

Recently I found myself at a Writers’ Festival in Sydney Australia, extremely jet-lagged, flogging my book, doing radio interviews a couple of times a day... And the same question kept coming up: Is ...

Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how our brains process rewards, regulate impulses and weigh consequences—not from genes that ...

A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person’s risk of developing an addiction and their educational attainment. Researchers found that some genetic ...

Addiction treatment is not the same for everyone. What works for one person may not work for another. That’s where genetic ...

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 ...

India, March 29 -- A large share of the inherited risk for substance use disorders may stem from genes that influence broader ...

How does alcohol change your brain at a genetic level? A new study reveals that alcohol metabolites directly alter epigenetic ...

Discovered: looking at violent images is unhealthy; a smart carpet; the gene that could be responsible for Internet addiction; infrared camera finds public drunks. Camera locates drunks in public.