BOSTON — The U.S. government’s top addiction researcher is calling for broad deregulation of methadone, a key drug used to treat opioid use disorder. American doctors should “absolutely” be allowed to ...

In 2003, the year Nora Volkow was appointed director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, roughly 13,000 Americans died of opioid overdose. In the two decades since, the overdose crisis has ...

David Sheff wrote a beautiful book called, appropriately enough, Beautiful Boy — A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction, one of the most compelling portrayals I've ever read of a ...

The top addiction researcher in the U.S. government is calling for the broad deregulation of methadone — a medication that can reduce dependency on opioids — in a major departure from how it is ...

Dr. Nora Volkow has seen the ravages of addiction first hand. Growing up in Mexico City, Volkow watched as a beloved uncle battled alcoholism — an experience that, among others, prompted her to devote ...

If drug addiction is a disease like cancer or Alzheimer's, how do you explain the seemingly amoral behavior — the lying, cheating, and hiding — that has come to be linked with so many addicts? The ...

Dalton Delan, a columnist for The Berkshire Eagle, interviewed Dr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes on Health, about the growing presence 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 ...

Early data regarding the use of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy to treat addiction is “very, very, exciting,” Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said Thursday ...