That doesn’t mean it is easy to gain control of the behaviors involved in addiction—but it is possible, and people do it every day. The disease model of addiction also suggests to people that ...

One motivation for moving away from the chronic brain disease model, Wiers suggests, is stigma. Studies show calling addiction a 'chronic brain disease' does reduce the degree to which addicted ...

Anna talks to an addiction medicine specialist about what the latest research reveals about why people start using drugs and how to support them if they do. Dr. Nzinga Harrison, addiction medicine ...

A paradigm-shifting study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has ...

We don’t celebrate recovery. And we shame addiction, something that medical and psychology associations agree is a brain disease, based on evidence and science. Those are among the concerns of ...

A good night’s sleep often sets the stage for a positive day. But for the nearly quarter of American adults struggling with ...

Then again, there are people with seemingly no substance abuse history in their family, yet they still somehow formed an addiction. The definition of disease is a disorder of structure or ...

Contributed by Center for Addiction Treatment Center for Addiction Treatment (CAT) re-launches the Family Education Group ...

A paradigm-shifting study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of ...