Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

Celebrity lives often play out like open books, and while they might seem glamorous on the outside, they are full of very human struggles beneath the surface. Addiction doesn't discriminate, and many ...

This article was co-authored with Dr. Justin Bell, Assistant Research Scientist at Chestnut Health Systems, first author on the underlying study, and a specialist in addiction recovery. Over 29.3 ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...