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The experience of addiction routinely includes periods of reduced substance use, or abstinence.

Heroin is certainly an addictive substance, so why didn’t all the subjects continue using it?

It’s the stigma that creates the distinction, not the distinction that creates the stigma.

Its extra potency makes it attractive to someone looking to get high but tolerant to the effects of ordinary pot.

I’m told that less than half of contemporary medical practice is actually rooted in evidence.

Some observers have criticized us for orienting treatment methods to more severe cases, but that’s predominantly who we see in many forms of treatment.

There are many concepts in clinical psychology that are not science-based, but are nonetheless still of use in therapy.

We’re already a society at risk of drowning in sciencey-sounding flapdoodle.

Having that particular label implies– the need to make a number of important changes in lifestyle that the patient frankly doesn’t feel like making.

No question that combining or ‘stacking’ these substances, illegal and/or prescription, increases the risk for unintended OD.