Erin Calipari comes from a basketball family. Her father, John Calipari, has coached college and professional basketball since 1998, leading six teams to the NCAA Final Four, and her brother coaches ...

Addiction is a terrible disease that affects almost 50 million people in the U.S. — as well as their family members, friends and other loved ones. When we talk about addiction, alcohol and drugs may ...

Why someone becomes addicted to a substance has long baffled scientists and philosophers. Now leading researchers are getting the clearest picture yet of how addiction works in the brain and body.

How addiction works in the brain, and why opioids are so dangerously addictive. Addiction destroys lives. In far too many cases, addiction also ends them. Overdose is a leading cause of cause of death ...

Nancy was a 28 year old teacher who addictively used the tranquilizer Xanax. She didn’t take it randomly (addictive actions are never random); she used it almost entirely when her boyfriend Mitch ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. David Sheff, the author of the New York ...

Most entrepreneurs at the top of their game don’t reveal the mistakes they’ve made, let alone the depths of their darkest times. Joe Polish is not like most entrepreneurs. The mastermind behind modern ...

A recent substance abuse task force hearing focused on drugs circulating in the state, their effects, how addiction works and the effects the legalization of adult use marijuana in the state has had ...

In a recent New York Times essay, Patti Davis, daughter of former president Ronald Reagan, reflects on the destructive power of addiction in her life. She describes waiting with others to snort ...