The Forty Hour Club production, which just opened at La MaMa, borrows elements from “Moby-Dick” to depict the ravages brought on by the opioid epidemic, particularly on the New England working class.

When we think of addiction, alcohol and drugs often come to mind. The image is familiar. A disheveled relative, visibly struggling, consumed by the search for their next hit. Betting rarely enters ...

For most of my career as an internal medicine physician and hospice specialist, I have been in the business of treating pain. Over time, the field has grown more sophisticated, but one truth has ...

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a tiny brain region called the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) ...

Most people come to me because something in their life feels out of control—a crumbling relationship, a habit they can’t break (too much alcohol, endless shopping, late nights lost to porn or drugs), ...