It is not a good era for prohibitionists. Cannabis – which has frequently been the object of unsound laws and discriminatory enforcement – is increasingly being decriminalized or legalized in many US ...

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For generations, addiction was commonly understood through what historians of medicine and addiction describe as the Moral ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The prevailing wisdom today is that addiction ...

The underlying cause of prescription narcotic abuse is addiction; and all of the scientific evidence supports the understanding of addiction as a chronic disease, a brain disorder ("Doctors, patients ...

Anyone raising children in an American city these days has had to confront the following disconcerting scene: a person unconscious or semiconscious, in filthy clothes, stoned at midday, a nuisance if ...