Addiction doesn’t take hold of a person’s life overnight, according to a local expert who says the condition develops slowly ...

Despite significant advances in addiction science, a persistent and critical challenge remains: the vast chasm between the ...

Today’s post is the first of a three-part series looking at some of the stranger addictions that have been written about in the academic literature (or by academics who have tried to argue that these ...

When child psychiatrist Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, was a few years into his career, he found himself doing it all. "I was in a leadership role academically at the medical school, I had a leadership role ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lipi Roy writes about addiction, mental health and entertainment. The talk of the town at this year’s American Society of ...

The main goal when determining the level of care is to match the intensity of the treatment to the severity of the addiction.