Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In 2016, Rachel Winograd began to see methadone patients who relapsed or left the treatment program where she ...

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 ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain disease, that the addicted person’s brain compels them to continuously use ...

Paolo Severi's mind keeps replaying what happened three decades ago when he entered addiction treatment at San Patrignano in Italy. The 47-year-old program is one of Europe's best-known rehab centers.