David Martinez Garza

Editorial: Emerging treatment approaches for substance use disorders

Frontiers in Psychiatry July 21, 2026 David Martinez Garza, Ilya O. Blokhin, Jonathan Brett et al.

Since the introduction of disulfiram in 1951 (the first ever Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medication for substance use disorders (SUDs)) (1), only seven other individual medications have been approved for the treatment of SUDs. While the repurpose of medications and different formulations increase the total number of FDA-approved medicines (Table 1 and(2)), the arsenal of...