On January 29 President Donald Trump issued an executive order launching “The Great American Recovery Initiative,” a White ...

The brain disease model of addiction holds that SUDs are chronic, relapsing brain diseases and that relapses are symptoms, and part of the expected course, of the disease (Morse, 2017). As with other ...

Does using alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances? In standard brain ...

The brain disease model promised clarity, but reality stayed messy For decades, the dominant scientific story has framed addiction as a chronic brain disease, a view popularized to counter the idea ...

Classifying addiction as a disease can allow for better outcomes for patients. Classifying addiction as a disease can allow for better outcomes for patients. James Murphy, MD, discusses the treatment ...

Trump administration details a new addiction initiative led by HHS secretary Kennedy emphasizing faith-based groups, tough ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...

The conversation about addiction within Black families requires a fundamental shift toward understanding it as a medical condition rather than a moral failing. This perspective change proves crucial ...

Four core aspects of recovery that are essential for addressing addiction. Many people see addiction . . . as a character flaw or a bad choice. They don’t recognize that addiction is in fact a chronic ...