Over my 50-year career as an addiction researcher, these are the most common misconceptions I've heard about people with alcohol and drug addictions. Myth 1: Addiction is a bad choice. Many people ...

Addiction to a drug means you cannot control your use of the substance, resulting in a harmful outcome. Drugs that are most commonly misused include alcohol, which can cause brain shrinkage, and ...

Have you ever wondered what the most common addictions are in today’s society? Here, we will take a whistle-stop tour through them. According to Psychology Today, addiction is “a condition in which a ...

The Deadliest Drug, a new investigative series, shows that the alcohol epidemic is a generational failure of the medical and public health systems, of industry, and of government.

Evidence-based therapies for alcohol addiction have scientific validation behind them, making them more reliable than approaches lacking research support. Only 4.5% of people with substance use ...

Teachers working as enumerators for Punjab’s first-ever “Drug and Socio-Economic Census” have allegedly been instructed not ...

Perhaps the most pervasive barrier to treatment is the persistent stigma surrounding alcohol addiction. Unlike many other medical conditions, addiction continues to be viewed by many as a moral ...

Found in tobacco products, nicotine is a highly addictive substance. Approximately 50 million people in America are addicted to some form of tobacco product, making it the most common addiction in the ...