Addiction is considered a disease largely as a way to remove stigma, guilt, moral blame, and shame from those who use substances or certain behaviors repeatedly to feel intense euphoria and as a way ...

Addiction is a disease, not a crime. We need treatment beds, not jails. Would you jail a cancer patient for violating his ...

What could drive someone to surrender everything most people treasure — family, livelihood, health and safety — in exchange for an experience that at best lasts hours, and at worst could be deadly? By ...

It is estimated that almost 11,000,000 employers in the US are suffering from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Not only does ...

Addiction is a chronic brain disorder, and not merely a behavioral problem or simply the result of taking the wrong choices, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), which has ...

Someone commits a petty crime — theft, say — to feed an addiction and is put on probation. The judge orders them into treatment and says not to take drugs or drink alcohol. But kicking a drug habit ...

MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong-Fast ran defense for Hunter Biden in a new column and TV appearance by calling addiction a "disease" and not a "moral failing" as his federal gun trial concludes ...

Warlocks and aliens don't scare Jerald Block. The psychiatrist is on his own quest: to get Internet addiction to be an officially defined medical condition. So I'll be with you in just a moment. Let ...

The addiction to ultraprocessed foods in older Americans is linked to health issues, with over 20% of women aged 50-64 ...

Mainstream and social media carry an extraordinary amount of influence on the public. And that influence as it relates to the dehumanizing information shared about people who have been directly ...

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 ...