When child psychiatrist Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, was a few years into his career, he found himself doing it all. "I was in a leadership role academically at the medical school, I had a leadership role ...

How addiction works in the brain, and why opioids are so dangerously addictive. Addiction destroys lives. In far too many cases, addiction also ends them. Overdose is a leading cause of cause of death ...

It can be challenging to love someone who has an addiction—painful to observe their loss of control and accruing harm, painful to experience the “disappearance” of the person you care about, and ...

This story contains spoilers for the second season of The Pitt, including the most recent episode, “8:00 PM.” A psychiatrist I know once told me that the two most common diseases in the world are ...

A recent substance abuse task force hearing focused on drugs circulating in the state, their effects, how addiction works and the effects the legalization of adult use marijuana in the state has had ...