Addiction can be a loaded term. The word originated in the 16th century to denote an abnormal attachment, typically to ...

This theory aligns with the allostasis model of addiction, which describes how excessive drinking shifts from a positive reinforcement phase, where alcohol brings pleasure, to a negative ...

The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's ...

In standard brain disease models of addiction, the neurotoxic effects of abused psychoactive substances are thought to cause brain changes that spur compulsive cravings for drink, smokes, or dope.

Robert Granfield and William Cloud conceptualized the theoretical foundations of recovery capital, contributing to a paradigmatic shift in the science of addiction recovery.

These questions lead to a broader model of addiction, which breaks down into two diagnoses. Primary illness: clinical depression. Secondary illness: Drug addiction.

Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.