In her new book, What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?, the philosopher Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm of addiction. Pickard explores the shortcomings of the brain disease ...

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a tiny brain region called the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

While the opioid epidemic is one of the most urgent public health emergencies facing the U.S., new therapeutic approaches for ...

District Hospital Tuensang, with the Mental Health Club of Sao Chang College, conducted an awareness programme on addiction ...

Consider two adult siblings who grew up in the same household and same family atmosphere. One sibling can drink socially—he enjoys a beer now and then, but overall, he can take it or leave it—while ...