Two St. Louis-area men recruited homeless people and drug-addicted individuals to carry out an elaborate fraud scheme ...

Xianna Moua Yang and her husband Yeng Moua, the co-founders of Koom Recovery, were found in their car with three pounds of ...

One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying ...

Two men allegedly recruited people struggling with homelessness to carry out a fraud scheme.

This video features a social experiment comparing public reactions to a homeless drug addict and a homeless father. By placing both individuals in similar public situations, the experiment observes ...

It’s hard to justify strikes on drug boats that kill dozens while having a negligible effect on overdoses in the U.S., writes ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Frustrated by out-of-control increases in drug overdose deaths, California’s leaders are trying something radical: They want the state to be the first to pay people to stay sober. The federal ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

Mayor Eric Adams’s recent proposal to force addicted New Yorkers into treatment if they pose a risk to themselves or others is “horrific,” one activist said. Another said the plan “sends a chill up my ...

Does compulsory drug treatment even work? That was the challenge on critics’ minds last week after New York City mayor Eric Adams announced a new proposal to compel the city’s addicts into treatment.