Numerous research studies confirm the link between traumatic experiences in childhood and addictive behaviors in adulthood. One of the most notable is the original study of Adverse Childhood ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

Addiction can affect anyone, regardless of background, education, or income. It often starts subtly—using alcohol to unw ...

When my son was born, I made a promise to myself and to him: the cycle of trauma and addiction stops now. I was 12 years sober at the time. The path that got me there had been filled with abuse, shame ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...

AS I THINK about how we try to address the current heroin crisis, I am drawn to the conclusion that we will fail in our attempts to resolve the crisis until we begin to talk about the private ...

Betrayal trauma occurs when an individual’s well-being is threatened by an important person or institution in their life. They will have had a close relationship, dependence, or trust with the person ...