Chez is the founder and executive director of We See You San Diego, a nonprofit providing services that include weekly dinners and street outreach to the homeless while offering crucial free ...

When most people hear the word addiction, they picture someone whose life has visibly unravelled. Yet addiction is often ...

Deachman is quite right in his well researched column that there are many causes for the drug addiction crisis that is rampant in our major cities. Quite right also in pointing out that eliminating ...

The disease of addiction lingers around the edges of my life with a sometimes subtle and, at other times, nearly all-consuming presence. My friend’s sister has reeled through cycles of opioid ...

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a ...

THE SAN FRANCISCO Department of Public Health is aiming to treat the underlying cause of drug addiction in order to mitigate the city’s overdose deaths, which averaged at least two people dying every ...

At 86 years old, Vincent DiPasquale still works four days a week at The Starting Point, Inc. of New Jersey in Haddon Township, a nonprofit he founded. "We're beginning a new series today," says ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Over the past year and a half, Scientific ...