Nick Padlo’s addiction to alcohol and drugs didn’t happen overnight. “I was using them as a tool to cope with depression and anxiety,” says the recovered addict and founder of Sophros Recovery in ...

We deal with a lot of inherently traumatic things in medicine every day. We see people die or get terrible injuries. We see people who have lost control of their lives. We convince ourselves that it ...

Addiction is a condition that has long baffled physicians and philosophers, to say nothing of those struggling with it and those around them. People have long debated whether addiction is a habit or a ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

When I entered rehab at 23, I learned that trauma was a thread woven into most addiction stories. Many people in my program described horrific neglect or maltreatment, including sexual abuse, they had ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...

We all like to believe that we can distinguish between love, attachment, and addiction. After all, love is something everyone craves, attachment is how we form meaningful bonds, and addiction... well, ...