Addiction & Recovery Articles

Are you a food addict? And if you are, what can you do to overcome your addiction? Answer these five questions and find your way to food freedom now.

Tens of millions of people light up a cigarette as they sip their morning coffee. But what happens if they light up a doobie with their morning joe? Or if you use coffee infused with marijuana?

Home brewing kits may soon do what decades of the War on Drugs failed to do: Kill the world-wide trade in opiates such as heroin, and even make it possible to home-brew cocaine.

So you stopped smoking years ago and think you're now free from your nicotine addiction? You think you can have "just the one" occasionally? Don't kid yourself, and read this to stay quit.

Are you thinking about quitting smoking but dreading it, or in the early stages of a quit and still thinking about smoking all the time? Only you can decide whether you quit and stay quit, and all it takes is not smoking.

Are you a female smoker who'd like to quit? You may, new research suggests, have to break out a rather unexpected tool to increase your chances of success: an ovulation test!

Spice, fake weed, K2 — whatever you want to call it, this drug isn't the innocent herbal mixture dealers would have you believe. Here's why to stay far away from synthetic cannabinoids.

Fentanyl, an opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine, is currently flooding American streets, often with deadly consequences. What do you need to know about this "modern heroin"?

Video games get a lot of bad press. Here, we look beyond the stereotype and examine all the potential benefits of gaming.

Do you want to quit smoking? For most smokers, the most successful, if not the easiest, way to beat nicotine addiction is to give up tobacco cold turkey, not to taper off.