Most children in foster care live with families, with relatives or with other foster parents. But about 10% of disabled kids ...

Could a grandfather’s health history hold clues about autism risk decades later? A new California study has found that grandchildren were more likely to receive an autism-spectrum-disorder diagnosis ...

The severity of CUD vs AUD is escalating across adult age groups, with young adults experiencing higher rates of moderate to severe disease.

Researchers are still investigating what alcohol does to the brain, and what (if any) amount is safe. By Dana G. Smith In 2003, a study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical ...

An attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis later in life is associated with a milder clinical and genetic profile than a diagnosis during childhood ...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, call the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Helpline at 800-662-HELP (4357) and find ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) arises from genetic and environmental risk factors. One environmental factor, maternal immune activation (MIA)—in which pathogenic infection during pregnancy increases ...

Heavy drinking and excessive amounts of kratom, a variety of so-called gas station heroin, killed adult film star Christian Styles, whose parents found him dead last week during a welfare check.

To develop a risk prediction model for moderate-to-severe insomnia among adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to identify key predictive features using interpretable machine learning methods ...

For many people, the cancer risks tied to alcohol begin and end with the liver. However, a new U.S. analysis of cancer deaths suggests the picture is much more complicated, especially for adults under ...