Understanding addiction as a disease doesn’t remove personal responsibility from the recovery equation. Rather, it contextualizes that responsibility within biological reality.

Through understanding and discussing addiction as a disease, Black families can better support affected members while working to prevent future substance use disorders.

To grasp why addiction is considered a disease, we first have to look at how it affects the brain. Substances like alcohol, opioids, or stimulants flood the brain with dopamine, a chemical tied to ...

For years, it's been widely accepted that addiction is a disease. But is it really? Rethinking this concept can open up new approaches to treatment.

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests.

For decades, medical science has classified addiction as a chronic brain disease, but the concept has always been something of a hard sell to a skeptical public.

Addiction isn’t a moral failure—it’s a disease. Learn how outdated beliefs delay care and how Dr. Roger Starner Jones, Jr. is ...

Decades of struggling with alcohol and drugs convinced me that addiction is a disorder that involves a person’s entire being.

After Toni Cornell's father, Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, died, she took on a new mission: to educate the public about the realities of addiction.

Reducing the stigma and shame associated with addiction is crucial to recovery, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), the Addiction Policy Forum (APF), and Nora Volkow, M.D.