Women at Hope Against Trafficking, a two-year program in Pontiac, say medical care, therapy and work helped them regain their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...