Why does the U.S. persist in treating addiction like a moral failing? This program treats addiction like the chronic disease ...

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

The "opioid crisis" claimed the lives of over 80,000 Americans last year, and that figure was a 27 percent drop on the drug ...

The disease model explains why willpower alone rarely overcomes addiction. While initial substance use may be voluntary, the resulting brain changes create a state where continued use becomes ...

Understanding addiction as a disease helps counter these harmful historical narratives. The impact of this historical context extends beyond individual families to affect entire communities.

is a startling departure from the usual tourism posters and welcome banners: “Addiction is not a choice. It’s a disease that can happen to anyone.” The statement is part of a public service ...

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests. After decades of research ...

Last week, a decade after the mental health profession reframed the national debate around addiction as “substance use disorder” — a treatable disease — the SJC issued new standards to ...

About 15% of adults who use heroin regularly develop the disease of addiction. So that’s very low.” 45% of opioid users develop addiction, not the majority The most recent studies revealed ...

A heroin addict asked her cousin to write about the disease of addiction before she died. When she was 19, Alicia Cook lost her cousin Jessica to a heroin overdose. Before she died, Jessica ...