This apparent contradiction aligns with clinical definitions of addiction and with brain disease models, which suggest that repeated substance use changes brain function, making drug use ...

Physical changes in the brain are its way to learn, to remember, and to develop. But we wouldn’t want to call learning a disease. So how well does the disease model fit the phenomenon of addiction?

The conversation around addiction has evolved dramatically over recent decades, with medical and scientific communities now firmly classifying it as a chronic brain disorder rather than a moral ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the National Institute on Drug Abuse have developed a new ...

Addiction isn’t a moral failure—it’s a disease. Learn how outdated beliefs delay care and how Dr. Roger Starner Jones, Jr. is ...

Addiction is an illness. The American Medical Association recognized alcoholism as a disease in 1956 and affirmed the brain disease model of addiction in 1987. Yet, unlike most other illnesses ...

Modern research has revealed something far more complex: addiction is a disease that changes the way the brain functions. It’s not about weak will or poor decisions.

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that ...

A compound normally associated with red blood cells may also play a game-changing antioxidant role in the brain, a study has ...

The disease model of addiction also helps families understand that recovery often requires long-term support and management, similar to other chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension.

The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor intensive care ...