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 ...

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

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 ...

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.