The brain disease model of addiction holds that SUDs are chronic, relapsing brain diseases and that relapses are symptoms, and part of the expected course, of the disease (Morse, 2017). As with other ...

I’ve generally felt critical of the “disease” label for addiction. But having read your many comments and looked up some recent literature, I can now give it its due. Psychiatrists – because they are ...

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Addiction represents a search for meaning in life, psychiatry professor Elias Dakwar explains, and effective treatment for the condition needs to take this into account, rather than focusing only on ...

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Addiction is a word that evokes strong feelings amongst much of society. It has connotations of illness, a life-long sentence involving constant struggle and inevitable relapse. However, recent ...

Are addiction and alcoholism diseases? After all this time, that question still divides people. I found myself thinking a lot about it this week in the wake of the trial of Michael Ryan Cody. Cody was ...

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 ...