As a clinician who treats veterans struggling with trauma, mental illness, and addiction, I’m careful about language. Words ...

Vaping with nicotine has become commonplace. It can be used to stop smoking cigarettes, but it has several serious health risks. The long-term effects of vaping are unknown.

During her residency, Dr. Lena van der List encountered a young girl struggling to breathe with no signs of a typical respiratory illness. After several tests and examinations, the patient admitted ...

More than 2,000 clinical trial participants contributed to the body of evidence submitted in the NDA demonstrating cytisinicline’s efficacy, safety, and tolerability profile The cytisinicline NDA is ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. The young people who wanted to quit ...

The percentage of those teens who made unsuccessful efforts to quit also doubled THURSDAY, Nov. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Tweens and teens who vape are becoming hopelessly hooked on nicotine, a new ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte From laboratory models to small human trials, a new review explores whether popular metabolic drugs could help curb alcohol, nicotine, and drug use, while underscoring how much ...

When most people consider treatment for psychiatric problems, they usually consider medications and/or psychotherapy. However, emerging neuromodulation approaches using transcranial magnetic ...

Offering tobacco users a vaccination to help ease, or potentially cure, their nicotine addiction is showing promise in clinical trials. Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Integrated care of nicotine replacement, pharmacotherapy and counseling proved most durable for smoking ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...

New evidence suggests the powerful addictive properties of nicotine upon teenage vapers Daily nicotine vaping doubled among U.S. middle and high school students between 2020 and 2024 The percentage of ...