Are We Creating Our Own Addiction Surge?
Rather than over-diagnosing, is psychiatry actually causing the maladies it laments?
Addiction
How to Tell When the Latest Drug Scare Story Is Just the Usual BS
Five hallmarks of anti-drug hysteria
Is Addiction a Chronic Brain Disease?
Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone.
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.
The Hijacking of Sobriety by the Recovery Movement
Sobriety isn't an abstinence fixation; it's about having purpose
Self-Control is the Key to Success: John Tierney and Roy Baumeister on Willpower
How to make good on your New Year's resolutions.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Taught To Be Helpless Before Drugs
Heroin epidemic? Cunning disease? Or learned powerlessness?
Government Says You Can't Overcome Addiction, Contrary to What Government Research Shows
Why does the National Institute on Drug Abuse contradict its own research?
Researchers Find Brain Activity that Leads to Cocaine Addiction
Could be useful in creating new anti-addiction medication
Politicians Driven by Drink
Drinking is not a good excuse for smoking crack, snorting coke, or anything else.
Crack Canards and Meth Myths
A neuroscientist corrects widely accepted misconceptions about two notorious drugs.
Study: Increase in Prescription Painkiller Use Has Not Improved Pain Treatment
Fears widespread use has led to addiction, but not actual success
The Gray Areas of Gray Matter
Neuroimaging is pretty cool, but it can't do what its most enthusiastic boosters claim.
Study Questions Whether 'Sex Addiction' Is Real
Brian responses don't match what is seen in other addictions
Ritalin May Cure Cocaine Addiction
Kind of a "fighting fire with fire" thing going on
You've Got Your Nerves in My Depression!
A book on the "depression" diagnosis takes its critique in the wrong direction.
Coroner Cites Coca-Cola in New Zealand Woman's Death
Apparently drank more than two gallons of the stuff per day
Challenging the Concept of Sex Addiction
A new study argues that the disease is "essentially mythical."
