Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs. By Jan Hoffman The message ...

But the conditions these rats were made to endure for the experiment — in effect, being alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine — is also a striking metaphor for the life circumstances known to be ...

The assumption that addiction is always harmful has gotten us nowhere toward helping kids or regulating the corporations that ...

Tobacco use in India is a complex, ongoing public health concernâ not just a bad habit, but a coping mechanism rooted in psychological need, socio-economic strain, and environmental influence. It's ...

These common examples underscore that addiction is not about responding to exposure to the same drug one took before; it has nothing to do with the same drug you took before. Then there's the fact ...

There is a gaping hole in Jeff Jacoby’s essay attributing economic inelastic demand for unhealthy consumer goods to human stubbornness (“The two faces of human stubbornness,” Ideas, November 16). The ...

Matt Field receives research funding from the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Alcohol Change UK, and the Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling. He is a trustee of ...

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and surgeon general of the Continental Army, was one of the pioneers of drug addiction research in the new America. 1784 Pioneer ...