The push to regard addiction as a disease is well-intentioned—driven by a desire to lessen stigma—but fails to account for the many facets and facts of the condition. Worse, it robs sufferers ...

For people who have no personal experience with addiction, it’s easy to get a distorted idea of what the disease is actually ...

Rosie O'Donnell says her daughter Chelsea, who faces felony child neglect and drug possession charges after a recent arrest, ...

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In the United States an epidemic of opioid addiction continues to get worse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a record 33,091 overdose deaths in 2015 from opioids ...

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The humanities and arts offer a vital counternarrative to the clinical view of addiction, emphasizing the role of storytelling, creativity and the search for meaning in the recovery process. They ...

Any form of addiction can lead to mental health problems. And, in today’s high pressure workplaces, this is almost becoming ...

They saw how the disease affected millions of people across the United States. Graphics and videos explained how addiction alters the brain, and spotlighted the damage the stigma around addiction ...

Brown University will receive $12.3 million in federal funding over the next five years to further research the unique ...

The university will get $12.3 million over five years to study whether misusing substances is connected with chronic ...