Addiction

Culture

You've Got Your Nerves in My Depression!

A book on the "depression" diagnosis takes its critique in the wrong direction.

Stanton Peele | 4.30.2013 10:30 AM

Policy

Obama Ends the War on Drugs…Again

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2013 6:50 PM

War on Drugs

Egypt Officials See Rise in Drug Addiction

Country's instability blamed

Reason Staff | 3.28.2013 6:00 PM

Science & Technology

Researchers: Social Networking Can Be More Addictive Than Nicotine, Alcohol

What about heroin?

Reason Staff | 2.20.2013 1:08 PM

Culture

Coroner Cites Coca-Cola in New Zealand Woman's Death

Apparently drank more than two gallons of the stuff per day

Reason Staff | 2.13.2013 1:37 PM

Civil Liberties

Challenging the Concept of Sex Addiction

A new study argues that the disease is "essentially mythical."

Jesse Walker | 2.7.2013 10:49 PM

Policy

New Film Highlights Growing Drug War Dissent

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2012 5:41 PM

Policy

Get the Scoop on the Zombie Drug Responsible for That Feeling of Impending Doom

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2012 11:57 AM

Policy

The Horror of Drug-Boosted Grades and SAT Scores

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2012 7:36 AM

Policy

How Psychiatrists Make Drugs More Addictive

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2012 4:21 PM

Policy

Why Is Nurse Jackie's Drug Habit a Problem?

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2012 12:57 PM

Policy

Tiny Painkiller Junkies?

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 2:29 PM

Policy

The Government's Medical Meddling Hurts Pain Patients

Jacob Sullum | 4.9.2012 3:31 PM

Politics

George Will: Drug Prohibition Is an Awful Flop. We Like It.

Jacob Sullum | 4.5.2012 4:21 PM

Policy

Do People Eat Too Much Because They Enjoy It Too Little?

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2012 3:37 PM

Policy

FoolProof Approach to Gambling: First Hysteria, Then Facts

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2012 1:52 PM

Policy

Mark Bittman: Government Is 'on Our Side' When It Stops Us From Eating What We Want to Eat

Jacob Sullum | 2.27.2012 1:55 PM

Policy

UK Nanny State: Let's Send Gamers to Rehab

Nick Sibilla | 1.25.2012 2:42 PM

Policy

The Government's Addiction Expert Says We Like What We Like Because We Like It

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2011 6:27 PM

Politics

Is Smoking a Choice or an Addiction? Why Can't It Be Both?

Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

Can't Shake the Shake Shakes

Jacob Sullum | 4.6.2011 1:39 PM

Politics

A Drug So Powerful It Causes Aggression and Passivity

Jacob Sullum | 2.17.2011 12:56 PM

Policy

Portugal's Drug Peace

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2010 3:20 PM

Policy

The Most Dangerous Drug

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2010 2:19 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Will The Feds Ban Your Pain Meds?

Reason Staff | 2.16.2010 9:55 AM

Policy

A Cocaine Treatment That Boosts Cocaine Consumption

Jacob Sullum | 1.7.2010 2:58 PM

Policy

At Least Her Avatar Doesn't Smoke

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2010 2:10 PM

Policy

NIAAA Official Says Alcoholism 'Isn't Usually' a 'Chronic, Relapsing Disease'

Jacob Sullum | 11.19.2009 1:26 PM

Policy

Kids Today, With Their Briar Pipes and Fancy Cigars

Jacob Sullum | 11.6.2009 12:58 PM

Policy

Probation, Fine, and Financial Ruin: The Penalty for Not Committing a Crime

Jacob Sullum | 10.8.2009 2:33 PM

Policy

Scientists Try to Take the Fun Out of Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 10.8.2009 12:14 PM

Policy

Why Take Painkillers for Your Pain When You Can Take Up a Hobby Instead?

Jacob Sullum | 10.2.2009 11:32 AM

Policy

This Just In: Heroin Addicts Like Heroin

Jacob Sullum | 8.21.2009 11:30 AM

Policy

E-Cigarettes Look More Effective Than Nicotine Gum or Patches

Jacob Sullum | 8.10.2009 1:08 PM

Policy

Is Anti-Pot Hysteria Waning at the Times?

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2009 4:24 PM

Policy

Obama's Not-So-Secret Shame

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2009 5:48 PM

Policy

Did the Drugs Make Them Do It?

Jacob Sullum | 5.28.2009 12:47 PM

Policy

The Unresisted Sex Urges of Celebrities

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2009 6:00 PM

Policy

How Do You Like Your Disease Model Now?

Jacob Sullum | 3.6.2009 1:36 PM

Politics

'By the Time I Found Out That It Causes Lung Cancer…It Was Too Late'

Jacob Sullum | 3.5.2009 11:12 AM

Politics

The International War on Drugs Hits Close to Home

Celebrating 100 years of failure and futility

Brian Doherty | 3.4.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Just Say Neigh

Jacob Sullum | 2.12.2009 6:28 PM

Policy

Baseball's Persistent Drug Culture

Banning steroids will not prevent further substance abuse

Steve Chapman | 2.12.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Barack Obama and the Rise of the Casual Smoker

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2008 11:32 AM

Policy

Does America's Drug Czar Support Decriminalization?

Jacob Sullum | 10.27.2008 11:55 AM

Policy

Data: Meth Math

Prohibition has little to do with declining drug use

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.17.2008 7:00 AM