Preventive Psychiatry for Mental Health Disorders
A review of the effectiveness of preventive psychiatry for mental health disorders finds a complicated array of results.
LifeSkills Training Has a Positive Track Record for Helping Kids Resist Drugs
LifeSkills Training is a school program that has shown excellent long-term results in helping kids resist drugs.
Surprising Good News in the Battle Against Substance Use Disorders
The Monitoring the Future Survey shows a surprising and steady decline in teenage substance abuse.
Job Loss and Addiction
Two studies, one new and one old, examine the impacts of job loss on substance use disorders.
Understanding the Reward Response and Addiction
We try to untangle conflicting studies about the brain’s reward response system and addictive or compulsive behaviors.
New Study Shows Correlation Between Brain Scans and Subsequent Addiction
A longitudinal brain study of children shows a correlation between low caudate nucleus reward response and gaming addiction.