The School of Pharmacy announced in August the establishment of the education program Rising STARS — Scientific Training in Alcohol Research and other Substances — which intends to expose ...

The Addiction Science Defense Network released a report saying federal actions have potentially destroyed 50 years of ...

A new master’s program in addiction science will be offered starting Fall 2023 in a joint venture between the Keck School of Medicine, the Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the School of Pharmacy.

The Addiction Science Defense Network in a new report criticized several reforms at the Health and Human Services Department, ...

Substance use impacts many people in many different ways – and while studies show that it doesn’t always lead to addiction, experts agree that using substances can affect a person’s health and ...

Members of UMSL’s Addiction Science Team assemble overdose prevention kits with doses of naloxone and information about treatment for addiction as part of their efforts to combat the opioid crisis in ...

Members of the Addiction Science Team at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Jamela Jones, center, and Kyra Robinson, right, help the Rev. Josh Privitt carry in prevention packs they delivered ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...