The Manitoba government is planning to extend the amount of time highly intoxicated people can be detained beyond the current ...

The conversation around the spike in homeless deaths comes as Detroit's services for the homeless have been scrutinized.

After years of financial instability, failure to pay back loans and ever-increasing costs, council has decided against ...

A new WSU study found that by targeting a certain part of the brain, scientists were able to lessen debilitating withdrawal ...

About 5% of people going through alcohol withdrawal will experience delirium tremens, which causes seizures, confusion, and ...

Alcohol withdrawal causes mild symptoms like nausea, tremors, and anxiety, as well as severe symptoms like seizures, ...

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) have identified a part of the brain that could ease alcohol withdrawal symptoms, according to a new study published in the journal Neuropharmacology.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The new study found the answer to helping people get through alcohol withdrawal may lie in a region of the brain known as the ...

All the Way to the River” taps into an enduring strain of spiritual eccentricity and wandering in American literature, from ...