A toxic mix of immediate pleasure and delayed penalties motivate excessive drug use, and the eventual use-dependent increases in costs and decreases in benefits bring addiction to a halt.

Part of the reason may be a failure to understand how addiction works. Many still expect prison to scare addicts straight. The worse the experience, the less inclined they'll be to use drugs in ...

Most Americans who experience alcohol and drug addiction survive. They recover and go on to live full and healthy lives. "This is really good news I think and something to share and be hopeful ...

Like millions of Americans, George Floyd lived with the torment of drug addiction. He and his girlfriend, Courteney Ross, became addicted to opioids four years ago after both were prescribed ...

Drug addiction manifests as a compulsive drive to take a drug despite serious adverse consequences. This aberrant behaviour has traditionally been viewed as bad 'choices' that are made voluntarily ...