Addictiveness, From Many Angles
People feel very strongly about the addictiveness (or not) of sugar. What makes them so sure? Personal experience, for one thing.
Food Addiction vs. Eating Addiction
Does it make a difference whether obesity is the result of food addiction or eating addiction?
How the Demonization of Addiction Costs Municipalities Lives and Money
Due to stigma and moral hazard, many communities suffer more overdose deaths, lost income and unreimbursed costs.
More States Allow Pharmacists to Prescribe Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder
States are slowly allowing their pharmacists to prescribe opioid use disorder drugs buprenorphine and naltrexone.
A More Humane, More Effective, and Less Expensive Way to Deal With Drug Addiction
Why are deaths due to overdose 10 times higher in the U.S. than the E.U.?
Sugar, Addictiveness, and Dopamine
For people of all ages, ingesting sugar causes the brain to make dopamine and deliver it to other parts of the brain — which is exactly what illicit substances do.