Many studies over the past 25 years have shown that high-sugar and other highly pleasurable foods —often foods that are ...

At the time of writing, Abi Feltham, a successful 35-year-old social media marketer from southeast England, has just come home from a two-week holiday in sunny Albania with her partner. But in 2020, ...

The subject of addiction swirls with myths and misinformation. It doesn’t help that so many people seem to believe that their own struggle with addiction — or a few drop-ins to Alcoholics Anonymous ...

"I got complacent. Everything was going so well in my life," the 42-year-old said this week. But the spiral of crack addiction led to divorce and him ultimately robbing a bank and a pharmacy. On ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, Washington, D.C., was a city under siege. As with other cities, it descended into near chaos because of the crack epidemic that claimed even innocent lives. Whole ...

Kristen Maddox was desperate. She was strung out on crack cocaine and pregnant when she pushed open the door of what she thought was an abortion clinic. The door opened instead to a Christian crisis ...