For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

In the summer of 1988, at the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ European tour, frontman Anthony Kiedis and guitarist Hillel ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young ...

When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

Campbell, whose new memoir is out March 18, said "you couldn't talk Tom into anything" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

Athletes, actors, politicians, and others often develop substance abuse disorders and some die from drug-related deaths. At the same time, their life history, drug use, and risk-taking shows the rest ...

The interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely suited to help people understand and recover from addiction.