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A 2026 laboratory study found no detectable acute-pain increase in frequent cannabis users after at least 12 hours of biochemically verified abstinence. Frequent users had higher THC exposur…
Read articleA 2026 study involving 32 adult mangrove rivulus fish pairs found that 3,000 µg/L waterborne psilocybin reduced movement and aggressive swimming bursts, but the result belongs in animal beha…
Read articleA 2026 medRxiv preprint interviewed 15 health-system stakeholders about CARES, a freestanding addiction-risk screening platform, and found a clear implementation split: people wanted better …
Read articleA Global Burden of Disease analysis estimated that U.S. age-standardized substance-use disorder disability-adjusted life-year rates rose 213.5% from 1990 to 2019, with opioid use disorders p…
Read articleA 2026 preprint combining 2,189 university participants with 477 clinical patients with problematic sexual behavior found a gender-specific self-harm signal: women with problematic sexual be…
Read articleChronic stress is a candidate mechanism for both depression and addiction risk. A 2026 mouse study found that 28 days of unpredictable chronic mild stress increased striatal dopamine D1 rece…
Read articleA 2026 BRFSS analysis involving 4,071 U.S. adults who used cannabis and either smoked cigarettes, vaped nicotine, or did both found a strong modality match: people who vaped tobacco were muc…
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