The author overcame his dependence on pills and alcohol. Now he wants to beat back misconceptions about the science of addiction. “How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the ...

It’s easy to immerse yourself in the bubble that is the recovery community. Suddenly you look around and everybody you know or date is in a 12 step program. Sure, they “get” you and your insane ...

Tevis Simon grew up in West Baltimore back in the 1980s, a neighborhood that lacked attention from the city and investment from the government. From day to day, she was never sure what version of her ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if ...

You have heard about the earth-shaking new study proving that addicts inherit a brain dysfunction that causes them to have poor impulse control? Published in the most prestigious fundamental research ...