Tag: Addiction

  • Campus & Community

    How we get hooked

    Harvard Provost Steven Hyman gave Harvard’s neighbors in the community a taste of the University’s academic workings, with a community lecture on the biological mechanisms behind drug addiction Dec. 7.

  • Arts & Culture

    Addiction: A Disorder of Choice

    A sobering book, sure to draw ire: This psychologist posits that addiction is voluntary.By analyzing buckets of research, Heyman offers insight on how we make choices, and how we can stop ourselves from going too far.

  • Health

    Routine screening test examines substance abuse prevalence among teens

    Approximately 15 percent of teens receiving routine outpatient medical care in a New England primary care network had positive results on a substance abuse screening test, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

  • Health

    Addiction illuminates concept of ‘free will’

    Whether humans possess free will or whether their actions are determined by something outside their conscious control is one of the most persistent problems in philosophy.