Trump administration says it wants to tackle the "addiction epidemic." But it's eliminating addiction treatment resources and access to mental healthcare.

The psychology expert explains to AS that in the modern era new addictions have emerged, such as addiction to the internet, shopping, and food.

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening to coordinate a federal government response to drug addiction and substance abuse. According to a White House fact sheet, the ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Drug policy was largely a backburner issue in 2025. Despite the ambitions of some moderate or right-leaning activists, and an apparent passion ...

What’s driving the permanent crisis of drug addiction? To express the ambient feeling that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, and on its ...

Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new book, “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight” ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

First-person stories of drug addiction, hope, healing, and recovery. Addiction is a complex and often misunderstood condition. This gripping special provides raw, unfiltered access to first-person ...

The treatment is called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Electrical stimulation is performed using a tablet to influence a patient’s mood from quiet or agitated to happy. Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital has ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

People often joke that their favorite snack is "like crack" or call themselves "chocoholics" in jest. But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such ...