On January 29 President Donald Trump issued an executive order launching “The Great American Recovery Initiative,” a White ...

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who struggled with substance abuse could stop if they simply wanted to. But ...

This post is in response to I Just Want to Testify (about my alcoholism) By Stanton Peele Ph.D. Nora Volkow and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) insist, based on peering at MRIs, that ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

With the opioid epidemic reaching into every corner of the U.S., more people are talking about addiction as a chronic disease rather than a moral failing. For researcher A. Thomas McLellan, who has ...

October 10th is World Mental Health Day, and this year’s theme is “Access to Services – Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies.” We are told to think of wars, floods, pandemics, and earthquakes ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks responsible for creative thinking. The findings indicate that the brains ...