Treatable: Rethinking Addiction and How to Get Care Right

From one of the world’s leading experts on addiction, a paradigm shift that shows us why we’ve gotten addiction wrong—and how to get it right

As a culture, many of us have long regarded addiction as an illness without a cure. Even worse, some have regarded addiction not as a disease at all, but as a moral failing or a lack of willpower. While progress has been made in our understanding of addiction—its genetic inheritance, its neurobiology, its link to trauma—our perspective on interventions...