A few years ago, I attended a talk by Nora Volkow, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. I studied drug addiction as part of my graduate education, but before listening to her speak, I had ...

A new study published in the journal Science Signaling has found that an immune system protein plays a central role in the ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

When people jokingly say they have a “drug of choice,” they’re implying a particular substance matches their emotional and psychological needs. They don’t realize they’re right: There are drugs of ...