People in addiction recovery can be liable to disown their addiction, which makes sense, but it also leaves them from ...

The conversation about addiction within Black families requires a fundamental shift toward understanding it as a medical condition rather than a moral failing. This perspective change proves crucial ...

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who struggled with substance abuse could stop if they simply wanted to. But ...

What is addiction, and how can we stop it? The complexities of addiction have stumped scientists for decades. Today, with 48 million Americans over the age of 12 suffering from a substance use ...

Consider two adult siblings who grew up in the same household and same family atmosphere. One sibling can drink socially—he enjoys a beer now and then, but overall, he can take it or leave it—while ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if ...

“How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the animating question behind Owen Flanagan’s “What Is It Like to Be an Addict?” An emeritus professor of philosophy and neurobiology at ...

The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery. This initiative ...

This short chapter summarizes some of the key discussions concerning how drug abuse is viewed in the society and the implications of those views. These discussions occurred throughout the committee's ...