For many decades, it's been widely accepted that alcoholism (or addiction) is a disease. The "disease concept" is taught in addiction training programs and to patients in treatment programs. It is ...

There, substance use disorders are described as “ chronic diseases that affect the brain.” The National Institutes for Drug Addiction describe addiction as “ a chronic, relapsing brain disease.” But a ...

A modest opposition to the brain disease concept of addiction has been mounting for at least the last decade. Despite the good intentions behind the brain disease rhetoric – to secure more biomedical ...

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who struggled with substance abuse could stop if they simply wanted to. But ...

On January 29 President Donald Trump issued an executive order launching “The Great American Recovery Initiative,” a White House campaign ...

The conversation about addiction within Black families requires a fundamental shift toward understanding it as a medical condition rather than a moral failing. This perspective change proves crucial ...

May 16—If there was one take-away from the WNC Drug Awareness Walk held Sunday in Waynesville, it was that drug addiction is not a choice, not a parental failure and not a moral failing. Addiction is ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington ...