Like drug addiction, greed hijacks the brain's reward system. In healthcare, this pathological pursuit of profit has life-or-death consequences.

Seattle and San Francisco scale back harm reduction policies distributing drug supplies, signaling a shift in how West Coast ...

Measure 110 is still far from achieving its promise to help Oregonians struggling with addiction due to frequent policy ...

New medications are in the pipeline that could help people win their battles against addictive substances, including opioids ...

The concept of digital rewards is slowly becoming an integral part of modern retail. More and more brands are now using ...

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Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” The supplies ...

Although similar, there are telling differences between food and alcohol addiction. For example, over time, a person builds ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...