Painkillers are a nearly inevitable part of the aftermath of surgery or recovery from a sports or industrial injury, but they carry a risk of addiction and, in an overdose, they can kill. In a package ...

Recognizing an addiction problem in someone you know can be harder than it seems. The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) defines addiction as a chronic disease that affects the brain’s ...

It is frequently said that addiction occurs when drugs “hijack” the brain. It’s hard to nail down what that means, but it does rightly suggest that there is an involuntary takeover of the brain that ...