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 ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer. Jessica Massarone couldn’t concentrate in primary school: She was too preoccupied with her parents’ struggles with drug addiction. Sometimes, she’d find ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...