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.

The mystery of addiction — what it is, what causes it and how to end it — threads through most of our lives. Experts estimate that one in 10 Americans is dependent on alcohol and other drugs ...

That way of understanding addiction became popular after Alan I. Leshner, then head of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, published a manifesto called “Addiction Is a Brain Disease, and It ...

Understanding addiction as a disease doesn’t remove personal responsibility from the recovery equation. Rather, it contextualizes that responsibility within biological reality.

Revenge is more than an emotion—it’s an addictive behavior. We get hyped about an epic revenge story to watch on the big ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 ...

Avenues Recovery Center, located in Ocean View, opened in June 2024 with a single client. Now, it treats nearly 70 people at ...

Why is it so hard to stop at just one cookie? For many people, sweet foods like chocolate, pastries, and candy aren't just a ...

Recovering "revenge addict" James Kimmel Jr. makes the case for retaliation to be understood as an addiction in new book The ...

I’m treating guys who would never be caught dead in a casino,” James Whelan, a clinical psychologist who runs treatment ...