addiction

The initiative will look at emerging trends as online sports betting becomes more prevalent across the country.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has received $8 million to study alcohol addiction. The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will…

A new study suggests North Carolina is home to four of the top 25 cities for opioid abuse, and the vast majority of cities on the list are located in the…

Mental health was the focus of this year's community conversation hosted by 88.5 WFDD, held at The Barn at Reynolda Village.

The Winston Salem Police Department is getting a new supply of a drug that will help save lives. This is in response to an increase in opioid use and…

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show North Carolina has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic. In fact, the state has been…

The human body, engineered over billions of years by evolutionary experiments in adaptation, owes its survival as a species to the experiences of pleasure, which is enacted by brain chemistry. Yet this is also the source of addictive behavior. A local scientist is working to change that.

Radio 101 commentator, Ally O'Reilly, worries about losing her brother to his heroin addiction. Her brother started using drugs recreationally when a…

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