August 24, 2017
Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. “I thought, ‘Why not let him get a jump on things?’ ” […]
August 1, 2017
People in recovery aren’t feeding the stigma. It comes from people who don’t understand addiction. There’s this look people get when I tell them I’m a […]
July 10, 2017
The new book ‘Drunks’ is a colorful history of America’s attempts to lay off the sauce, from radical prohibitionists attacking frontier bars to modern rehab programs […]
June 26, 2017
Heavy drinking can lead to a number of serious health problems, including increased risk of cancer, heart disease, and dementia, but consuming even moderate levels of […]
June 14, 2017
Teens who attend high-achieving schools in well-to-do communities may be more vulnerable to drug and alcohol problems than their less well-off peers, a new study from […]
April 28, 2017
As a playwright, my work has touched on addiction in a variety of ways. Recently in my play #Love95times, which is about a sexual assault on […]