Why is addiction considered a disease? Addiction is considered a disease largely as a way to remove stigma, guilt, moral blame, and shame from those who use substances or certain behaviors ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which shuns the term addiction (but nevertheless ... often requires addressing the guilt and shame people feel over their ...

"Her sobriety journey has really changed the way that she looks at things," Joanna "JoJo" Levesque tells PEOPLE after ...

The Matthew Perry Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have created an addiction medicine training fellowship in Matthew Perry’s name and selected its inaugural fellow ...

The wildfires in California are leaving many of those unaffected feeling a sense of "survivor's guilt." A resident of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood told CBS News Los Angeles their house is ...

I have an advantage, or maybe a disadvantage, compared with some scientists and psychologists who work on addiction. I was addicted to booze and benzos for 20 years on and off, from the late 1970s ...

Not to mention that we are withdrawing from Gaza, releasing terrorists, and this is surrender and shame.” “Right now, it looks very bad. It seems like the war is over. A million Gazans will ...