I Learned It by Watching You: How Television Distorts Drug Addiction
Fictional dramas aid leading medical historians in misrepresenting what happens when people get hooked on cocaine and other substances.
Fictional dramas aid leading medical historians in misrepresenting what happens when people get hooked on cocaine and other substances.
Sobriety isn't an abstinence fixation; it's about having purpose
How to make good on your New Year's resolutions.
Heroin epidemic? Cunning disease? Or learned powerlessness?
Why does the National Institute on Drug Abuse contradict its own research?
Could be useful in creating new anti-addiction medication
Drinking is not a good excuse for smoking crack, snorting coke, or anything else.
A neuroscientist corrects widely accepted misconceptions about two notorious drugs.
Fears widespread use has led to addiction, but not actual success
Neuroimaging is pretty cool, but it can't do what its most enthusiastic boosters claim.
Brian responses don't match what is seen in other addictions
Kind of a "fighting fire with fire" thing going on
A book on the "depression" diagnosis takes its critique in the wrong direction.
Apparently drank more than two gallons of the stuff per day
A new study argues that the disease is "essentially mythical."