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There’s No One Right Way to Think About Addiction
The idea that it’s a disease may be useful for some people and harmful for others.
Let's Get Our Facts Straight About Sex Addiction
Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction
A young man’s suicide highlights issues in the treatment of A.D.H.D., as youths fake symptoms to feed their addictions to potentially dangerous stimulants.
Are Older Americans at Risk for Alcohol or Drug Addiction?
Rates of alcoholism and painkiller addiction are growing among older adults, and the negative effects can be worse in later life. Are you at risk?
When insurers deny treatment for drug addiction
In a nation where one American dies every 19 minutes from opioid or heroin overdose, addiction doctors are incensed that insurance companies are making patients wait for medication that can save them.
Why Not Start Addiction Treatment Right In The ER?
Like asthma or diabetes, opioid addiction is a chronic condition. Could treatment that begins when people show up in the ER get them on the right road faster?
Anatomy Of Addiction: How Heroin And Opioids Hijack The Brain
Roughly 2.5 million Americans are addicted to heroin and opioids like Oxycontin. Researchers say addiction takes over the brain's limbic reward system, impairing decision making, judgment and memory.
Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start In Childhood
Understanding the root causes of addiction can help us to better treat it.
9 Things You Should Know About Porn Addiction
For Teenagers, Adult-Sized Opioid Addiction Treatment Doesn't Fit
Teenage brains are more susceptible to drug abuse, but it's often hard to find treatment. It's even harder to find evidence-based treatment designed for youth. But that's starting to change.
To Prevent Addiction In Adults, Help Teens Learn How To Cope
Many people who become addicted to drugs, tobacco or alcohol start using as teenagers. So more effort is being put into helping teenagers stop before they get in too deep.
How we treat pain currently may contribute to opioid addiction
The pain intensity scale is often used to monitor a person's pain. But focusing too much on pain intensity could be contributing to the opioid epidemic.
When Time Behind Bars Cuts Addiction Treatment Short
Most inmates lose access to medication-assisted treatment for addiction once they're incarcerated. Among prisons and jails that do offer such treatment, it's often restricted to pregnant women.
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do -- and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about…
How the War on Drugs Is Hurting Chronic Pain Patients
Despite the claims of some government agencies, research has shown that the overwhelming majority of addictions do not start with a prescription, and most opioid prescriptions do not cause addiction.
Teen athletes tell how injuries put them on the path to addiction
For some young sports stars, a pain-pill prescription can be the worst medicine.
Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?
The idea that addiction is typically a chronic, progressive disease that requires treatment is false, the evidence shows. Yet the "aging out" experience of the majority is ignored by treatment providers and journalists.
Why we should de-criminalize all drugs
It’s impossible to remove the stigma of addiction while drug use remains illegal – the two concepts are completely at odds with one another
Nutrition and Recovery: How Healthy Eating Can Help You Stay Sober
Eating healthy, research shows, can go a long way toward helping you on the road to addiction recovery.
The horrifying way some drug addicts are now getting their fix
“When you have this kind of addiction . . . people will do just about anything to obtain these drugs, and they usually do,” a DEA official said.
