Who gets better medical care in the United States: “addicts,” or “people with substance use disorders”? The terms, of course, mean functionally the same thing. But in the field of addiction medicine, ...

Addiction is a state of severe physical and psychological dependence on certain substances. People living with addiction may have brain differences and often require treatment, but stigma can prevent ...

Last week I described how easy it is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York. And how “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts. Such sites are fought over. Do they ...

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 ...

Late last year, I walked roughly a mile from downtown Seattle to the working-class neighborhood of Little Saigon and came upon a montage of human despair. An open-air drug market stretched along the ...

About 100 people — mostly local drug addicts — gathered at a pagoda in Phnom Penh in mid-February. A few drug users had brought their families for support, and they sat together on woven mats before a ...

Drug abuse and drug addiction are related but not the same. Drug abuse describes using legal or illegal substances in a way that is harmful, whereas drug addiction is a physical or psychological ...

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Although self-harm is not formally classified as an addiction in the DSM-5-TR, some experts argue that it can manifest as a behavioral addiction due to its effects on the brain’s reward system.