Letter: How addiction works. By John Green. Published: March 9, 2023. Let me see if I can help recent letter-writer Joan Bundtzen see clearly how addictions differ.

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who ...

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 ...

Still, it is possible to help someone get out of the trap of addiction, although that usually takes time, many tries, many disappointments, and a clear understanding of how addiction works and ...

We have the tools we need to create a world where addiction is just one aspect of people’s lives instead of a dark portal to despair and early death.

Of course, working hard or even meeting unreasonable demands from work is not the same as work addiction, as Griffiths clarified in a 2023 editorial in BMJ Quality & Safety.The difference, as with ...

Addiction affects millions of people -- and some of the things that loved ones often do can end up holding people back from recovery. Alistair Berg via Getty Images If you or someone you know is ...