In 12-step meetings, it is often said that someone was an addict before he or she “put in.” According to this view, putting a drug, whether alcohol or any other addictive substance, into our bodies in ...

EVERYTHING you thought about addictions could be wrong. The likely cause has been found and it’s not what you think. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted. It ...

For most of the past century, the question researchers asked about addiction was the wrong one. Not wrong in a trivial sense — wrong in a way that shaped treatment, policy, and the quiet shame carried ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Nov. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the media team at Palm Partners had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Thomas Beley, Ph.D., LCSW who is the Executive Director for Palm ...

After Matthew Perry’s death was announced, a clip of the actor debating the science of addiction on the BBC’s Newsnight programme went viral. To find out where we’ve got to in our understanding of ...

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Addiction Policy Forum released a new video explainer on the science of addiction available in 12 languages. The project, supported by the ...

Addiction specialist Sally Marlow examines the science behind addiction to find out why so many people in Britain are hooked on drugs and alcohol. Neuroscientists now have a sophisticated ...

I still remember a conversation I had more than 25 years ago, when I was a young physician, just starting in my work with patients struggling with drugs and alcohol. “You know, doc,” a patient told me ...