Researchers report that acetazolamide prevented adverse brain changes caused by cocaine withdrawal in mice, suggesting the approved drug could be repurposed to target relapse-related pathways.

An existing drug currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures may also have the potential to prevent ...

Some medicines that are unrelated to maintaining brain health can also impact the organ following chronic usage. Dr Jagannathan explains.

University of Iowa researchers in the Carver College of Medicine discovered a commonly used drug could treat opioid use ...

Researchers find that a common glaucoma drug, acetazolamide, can reverse brain changes and prevent relapse in opioid use disorder.

An existing drug currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures may also have ...

An existing drug currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures may also have potential for preventing relapse in opioid use ...

When people overdose on opioids, whether they wake up on their own or are revived by Narcan, many doctors assume they are fully recovered. This is a mistake because hypoxia (insufficient oxygen to the ...

Addiction has causes that are neurobiological, psychological and structural. Treating these drivers is as important as ...

Despite the misleading weather, winter is still here and many of us suffer from a runny nose, coughs or just a cold. Some of us rely on grandma’s remedies – but are they really effective?

Health care workers in the Deaconess emergency department now have a new way to treat patients with opioid withdrawal symptoms: long-acting injectable buprenorphine.