Some think labelling it a disease is a helpful way to think about addiction; others think this makes the addict helpless in their fight against addiction. Two academics debate both sides of the coin.
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The FDA just approved a new implant of a drug that treats opioid addiction. Why hasn’t the drug been prescribed more widely already?
What exactly is addiction? What role, if any, does choice play? And if addiction involves choice, how can we call it a “brain disease,” with its implications of involuntariness?
It’s not just energy-hungry pot farms: the ties between energy and drugs run deep. Can we develop a national drug policy drawing on the lessons of the domestic oil and gas boom?
We don’t know enough about the people who use painkillers non-medically to make the judgement that there is a natural transition from legal to illicit drug use.
Changing drugs laws can have some very unexpected consequences.
Hoping to avoid the pitfalls and tropes of drug genre photography, documentary photographer Aaron Goodman spent a year following three addicts enrolled in a heroin-assisted treatment program.
Addicted to the internet? Perhaps not …
There are scores of reasons why people get hooked on drugs. But governments play a key role, too.
Drugs, coffee, television – they can all be described as ‘addictive’. But when do they become a problem?
Be careful: many of us have tried at least two of them.
With use of drugs such as ice on the rise, drug consumption rooms are now being set up in Europe to provide supervised inhalation.
Why have the demographics of heroin use changed so much? For that, we can look to dramatic increase in prescriptions for opioid painkillers, such as Oxycontin or Vicodin.
Penalties for drug traffickers in Iran are harsh but it also has progressive policies for addicts. Is it time to go further?
Stigma toward heroin use might prevent a lot of people from using the drug, but these attitudes don’t help people who are dependent.
The way you take a drug affects how much of it gets to your brain, and how rapidly drug levels rise and fall.
There’s a worrying lack of evidence for what works when it comes to drug treatment. And our addiction services are suffering as a result.
Teen drug abuse is a real problem with 46% of high school students hooked on some addictive substance. Recovery high schools are offering a new model of treatment.
Not only can they improve public health and decrease treatment costs, but they can also address one of the root causes of addiction: loneliness.
You would be forgiven for thinking that Russell Brand, that radical left-winger and advocate of revolution, and Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative secretary of state for work and pensions, didn’t have anything…
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Hon. Professor Drug Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Population Health Science, University of Dundee
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of Population Health, New York University
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Mental Health Social Worker and PhD Candidate, Staffordshire University
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
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Associate professor, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Peter Whiteford adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
