Addictive personalities aren't real, but addiction is. Genetics, environment, and trauma are some factors that can contribute ...

Addiction is a condition that has long baffled physicians and philosophers, to say nothing of those struggling with it and those around them. People have long debated whether addiction is a habit or a ...

For many addicts, guilt and shame are two emotions that keep them from seeking help. Their problem, they mistakenly believe, is a moral failing, a result of a lack of willpower that they don’t see ...

I have an advantage, or maybe a disadvantage, compared with some scientists and psychologists who work on addiction. I was addicted to booze and benzos for 20 years on and off, from the late 1970s ...

Make no mistake, addiction is a neurological brain disorder. When the subject of addiction comes up, people often lean on ...

The author overcame his dependence on pills and alcohol. Now he wants to beat back misconceptions about the science of addiction. “How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the ...

Addiction, not external disasters, is India's biggest catastrophe, affecting over 50 crore people. This chronic brain disease ...

The global drug use disorder deaths have more than doubled since 1990, even as new addiction cases declined, highlighting a ...

It does not care who you are, what you look like, where you live or how much money you have in your back account. It does not let go easily, sometimes lying dormant for years before resurfacing with a ...

I am very sad to read Sarah Rahal’s article (“Homeless nonprofit to cut staff and services,” Metro, Sept. 21) concerning cuts to what I feel is the best program in Boston. We need to do more to help ...

“How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the animating question behind Owen Flanagan’s “What Is It Like to Be an Addict?” An emeritus professor of philosophy and neurobiology at ...