Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

It is not a good era for prohibitionists. Cannabis – which has frequently been the object of unsound laws and discriminatory enforcement – is increasingly being decriminalized or legalized in many US ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In 2016, Rachel Winograd began to see methadone patients who relapsed or left the treatment program where she ...

For much of his life, Nick Reiner’s struggle with addiction played out in cycles. There were repeated stints in rehab, stretches of homelessness, medical emergencies and volatile behaviour that put ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

Nov. 6—When someone asks the question, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" they want you to put in chronological order two different things: an egg, and one chicken. If you answer by saying, ...

Does using alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances? In standard brain ...

Researchers report October 25 in the journal Neuron that cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how we perceive and learn from rewards. Though people with cocaine addiction have ...