One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

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 ...

Adapted from "THE BIOLOGY OF DESIRE: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease" The idea that addiction is some kind of disease is unquestionably the dominant view in government, medical, and most scientific ...

Addiction is a complex issue that affects people from a varying range of backgrounds, cultures, and upbringings — according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health approximately 20.1 million ...

Is addiction a disease? Most people think, "yes." The idea has become ingrained in the minds of media, courts, treatment facilities, and addicts. It's also a stigma. A debatable concept is that if you ...

"The message that addiction is a disease makes substance users less likely to seek help." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 05 / 190528120324.htm (accessed October 27, 2025).

If I don’t change, my life will not get better.” Those were my son Daniel’s words—an aha moment of clarity, the springboard ...

That's what 70 percent of adult Kentuckians say about addiction, a newly released Kentucky Health Issues Poll shows. That view doesn't vary between those who have someone in their family or a friend ...

Nowadays, the unfortunate reality is that many of us have been affected in some way by addiction. We personally may not be the person suffering from the addiction but odds are there is someone in your ...

Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood has been hit hard by the national opioid crisis that’s killed tens of thousands of Americans in recent years. One morning in July, here’s the scene outside a ...